"Learning to Sew"

inscription:

verso: .1: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS./ All Rights Reserved."; graphite: "Learning to Sew/ .50" .2: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."; graphite: "Unknown scene probably in Allen House"; "Learning to Sew. .50"

description:

Woman elaborately dressed and child sewing by window. .

references:

Listed in sisters' catalogs of 1904, 1905, & 1909. .01: Reproduced as Plate 19 in Suzanne L. Flynt "The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers 1885-1920" (Deerfield, MA: PVMA, 2002).

keywords:

Children
Clothing, Fashion, Costume
Colonial Revival
Costumes
Entertainment