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Box 10

 Container

Contains 237 Results:

Item 7: Habitant spinning and weaving making, Matane, Province of Quebec, 1934

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts two women, one working a spinning a wheel, the other, a loom. Made in Canada. Date based on calendar on back wall: August 1934. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1934

Item 8: Cornelius O'Sullivan, Handwoven Homespuns, Raleigh Bonane, Kenmare [Ireland]

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and- white image depicts Cornelius O'Sullivan sitting at a loom. Handwritten on reverse some notes, measurements, and prices. ca. 1950. 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 9: Weaving, Pi Beta Phi school, Gatlinburg, Tenn.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a woman working at a loom, with a spinning wheel in the background. Weaving was first taught at the Pi Beta Phi settlement school in Gatlinburg in 1925. [1939?]. 13.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 10: Loom room, Llewsac Lodge, Bedford, Mass.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts two women working at looms. Another loom is at the right. Llewsac Lodge was the Bedford branch of the Frances E. Willard settlement in Boston. It served both as a home for needy older women as well as a vacation spot for younger working women from the settlement in Boston. Weaving was one way guests could help pay for their stay at the Lodge. The undivided back postcard suggests a date no later than 1907, but the Bedford property was not purchased until 1909....
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 11: The loom room in the country store attic, Wiggins Old Tavern at Hotel Northampton, Northampton, Mass.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Tinted image depicts a woman working at a loom on the right. Several spinning wheels and a great wheel can be seen on the left. The Hotel Northampton was constructed in 1927. ca. 1930s. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 12: Top: Miniature silk loom / Bottom: Habitant loom, Province of Quebec, Canada

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Color image depicts (top) a young girl holding a kitten, sitting by a miniature loom, and (bottom) four women working at looms. "Canadian Art Deeptone" Series. Made in Canda. ca. 1930s. 8.75 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 13: Peasant housewife weaving cotton cloth - shuttle in hand ready to pass through the warp - Japan

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a Japanese woman working at a loom. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 14: Weaving the yarn

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Habitant life in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Color image depicts a woman working at an "old fashioned hand loom. A familiar sight in the habitants' home, weaving the yarn into soft warm blankets." Montreal: Novelty Mfg. & Art Co. Ltd., ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 15: At the loom - home spun fabrics are common in Japan and these picturesque and primitive methods abound in the country districts

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts two Japanese women working at looms, probably weaving silk cloth. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 16: The weavers, Land of the Sky

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a woman working at a loom and a second, elderly woman standing near a great wheel. On front: "No. 41." Asheville, N.C.: H. Taylor Rogers, ca. 1915-1930. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003