MARK OF SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS' CLUB, BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1917

The Saturday Evening Girls' Club was an outgrowth of an existing club for young immigrant girls who met on Saturday evenings at a branch of the Boston Public Library. In 1907, pottery was added to train the girls in a craft. By 1912, the goods produced were sold from the "Bowl Shop" of the Paul Revere Pottery. In 1915, a pottery was built in Brighton, where 15-20 girls would glaze and decorate work thrown by a male potter. The pottery was more successful as a social experiment than as a financial concern, and was subsidized by Mrs. James Storrow until shortly before her death. (See: Wendy Kaplan, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, 1987, p.p. 312-13; Meyer, Inspiring Reform, p. 64; Leslie Green Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, 1990, p. 173)