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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
Courtship.
Kelloggs & Comstock
1848-1850
Duncan Gray Cam Here to Woo.
D. W. Kellogg & Co.
1830-1840
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
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.587, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
1890s
2013.241.2 Museum purchase (c) 2015 Connecticut Historical Society
Keystone Department Store
20th century