About 1906 librarian Edith Guerrier started offering a pottery class at the Boston Public Library to teach immigrant teenage girls a trade. By 1912 more than 200 girls, members of the Saturday Evening Girls Club, worked at the pottery, named Paul Revere Pottery.
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