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Woman in Colonial Revival Costume at a Spinning Wheel
Woman in Colonial Revival Costume at a Spinning Wheel

Woman in Colonial Revival Costume at a Spinning Wheel

Date1905-1920
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width, in mat): 8 1/16 x 6in. (20.5 x 15.3cm)
Folder (height x width, closed): 13 3/16 x 9 13/16in. (33.5 x 25cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the University of Connecticut Health Center Auxiliary Thrift Shop
DescriptionA woman, wearing a Colonial Revival dress and wig, sits at a spinning wheel and holds a piece of thread. A cut-out photograph of a spinning wheel has been pasted over the larger picture at the bottom right, mostly covering the original spinning wheel.

A design is embossed on the top left corner of the front cover. Inside an oval is a ship with billowing sails.
Object number2002.57.4
On View
Not on view
Gift of Barbara F. Redden, 2002.105.0  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
1850s - early 1860s
Duncan Gray Cam Here to Woo.
D. W. Kellogg & Co.
1830-1840
Courtship.
Kelloggs & Comstock
1848-1850
Tea Bowl
Staffordshire potteries
1820-1840
Gift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, 2011.344.957  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical …
Harriet V. S. Thorne
about 1900
Museum purchase, 1995.36.132  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.587, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
1890s