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Color image depicts a woman working at a flax spinning wheel. A reproduction of the painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ca. 1970s. 10.5 X 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image depicts three wormen converting wool by carding, spinning, and combing in preparation for creating a burnouse, the national garment. Ralphael Tuck & Sons, "Wide - Wide - World" series, "Oilette" series [depicting painted views]. Printed in England. [no earlier than 1905] 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows a group of people gathered in the street. Two women are handworking fibers from a distaff into thread. Lazzaroni is a historical term specific to the Age of Revolution that identifies the poorest of the lower class, the street people. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image depicts a wheel for spinning wool. Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [Yorkshire, England]. Formerly a private residence, Bankfield was sold in 1887 and was transformed into a museum. ca. 1950-1962. 8.75 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Sepia-tone image shows one woman seated at flax wheel with another woman looking on. They are dressed in clothing [or costume] that is possibly Dutch, given the shoes and bonnets they're wearing. The scene appears to be staged, but no location or publication information of any kind is on the card. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Group scene with spinning wheel. Black and white image depicts a young man and woman seated next to a flax spinning wheel. He is offering the younger woman a drink and has his left arm around her shoulders. An older woman looks on in the background. The head of a hog is visible on the left. "Barney & Blarney" has been written by hand on the reverse of the card, but it's unclear what that refers to. No publication information given. ca. 1880-1900. 18 x 8.75 cm. Format:...

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Gelatin silver print, carte-de-visite, ca. 1890. Black and white image depicts an older woman sitting at a flax wheel. Her bonnet and dress suggest she may have been dressed as part of the Colonial Revival period in the 1880s and 1890s. 6.25 x 10.5 cm. (overall).

Format: Black and white photograph.

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Woman at flax wheel "In the Olden Days." Black and white image shows a woman seated at a spinning wheel in front of a fireplace. Her dress [or costume] is Colonial Revival. Copyright 1905 by J. Murray Jordan, which refers to the image, as the card was manufactured no earlier than 1907. Postmarked Jan. 7, 1908 but location is illegible, and Jan. 8, 1908 in Hanover, Pa. 13.5 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image depicts a woman seated outside a building hackling flax, which is combing the material by means of steel pins, the fineness and setting of the pins varying with the stage of the operation. She is dragging the flax through the pins set up on a low table in front of her. Several other bunches of flax are to the left, and a spinning wheel is in the background. All of this is taking place outside a barn perhaps, as there is a wood clapboard and stone building behind her. No...

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a comical scene: a woman in front of an elaborately carved wooden screen (which probably hides is the Breton closed or box bed of the title) with two gentlemen looking at her from above and behind the screen. One of the men is pointing to her as she undresses; she is not "finally alone" as the title suggests. A grandfather clock and a flax spinning wheel are also in the scene on the left. Artaud et Nozais, Imp-Eoit, Nantes. [no earlier than 1904] 9 x 14 cm....