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Woman in a Striped Dress at a Sewing Machine
Woman in a Striped Dress at a Sewing Machine

Woman in a Striped Dress at a Sewing Machine

Dateabout 1864
MediumPhotograph; albumen print on paper on cardboard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 3/4 x 2 3/8in. (9.5 x 6cm) Mount (height x width): 4 x 2 1/2in. (10.2 x 6.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
Object number2001.14.1
DescriptionCarte-de-visite of a woman in a striped dress seated at a treadle sewing magine. She appears to wear a hair net and a ribbon in her hair. There is a ring on her right hand. She is seated in a carved wooden chair. She guides a piece of cloth through the sewing machine. A spool of thread is visible beneath the cloth. A pair of scissors lies on the sewing machine.
Status
Not on view
Woman at a Sewing Machine
Union Gallery
about 1864
Gift of the Smith-Worthington Saddlery Co., 2021.22.90, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyrig ...
Smith-Worthington Saddlery Company
Sewing Kit
Arthur J. Kiely Jr.
about 1943
The Farmers Nooning.
Kellogg & Bulkeley
after 1867
Home and Friends.
Kelloggs & Comstock
1850
Museum purchase, 1990.79.0, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Elijah Chapman Kellogg
1852-1853
Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collection, 2015.196.548.41, Connecticut Historical  ...
Florence Betgeorge
2008 March 2