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Domestic Tasks

Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln

Two Sisters

Advertisement for Good Housekeeping's Pattern Service, Featuring Women's Fashions

Surrounded Islands

Seamstress

Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln

An address to the ladies of Ireland ; on the new mode of teaching needle-work, invented and practised in the royal Lancasterian schools, whereby one mistress may teach the art of needle-work to two hundred girls, - inspect their progress with facility, and furnish the materials for work on at a trifling expense

Self-Portrait at the Spinning Wheel

Woman Sewing

Political Vision of the Mexican People

The Sempstress

Surrounded Islands

Machine, Sewing

Klemm's Overall Manufacturing Company Workroom

Needlework Basket, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln

Needlework kit

Spinning with Distaff, from le livre des cleres et nobles femmes

AchRome

Domestic Tasks
Image | 1671 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view
Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two-drawer small sewing table. Pedestal rectangular post, rectangular base, four modified feet. L 24" x H 27 1/2" x W 20".
Two Sisters
Image | 1879 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching Collection
Advertisement for Good Housekeeping's Pattern Service, Featuring Women's Fashions
Image | 1904 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Surrounded Islands
Image | 1980-1983 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1980 and 1983.
Seamstress
Image | 1912-1913 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1912 and 1913.
Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Veneered work table. Rectangular base with carved scroll bracket feet, pedestal supporting top is rectangular post, narrowing toward top. Two drawers under nearly square top, each drawer is concave with two circular wooden knobs. Drawers are stacked to form box under top, while top projects over box slightly. L 19 3/4" x W 19" x H 26 5/8".
An address to the ladies of Ireland ; on the new mode of teaching needle-work, invented and practised in the royal Lancasterian schools, whereby one mistress may teach the art of needle-work to two hundred girls, - inspect their progress with facility, and furnish the materials for work on at a trifling expense
Multi-Page Item | 36 pages | 1814 | Digital Rare Book Collection
Self-Portrait at the Spinning Wheel
Image | 1765 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1765.
Woman Sewing
Image | 1640 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1640.
Political Vision of the Mexican People
Image | 1928-1929 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1928 and 1929.
The Sempstress
Image | 1844 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: British
Surrounded Islands
Image | 1980-1983 | Modern and Contemporary Art from the Jonathan Fineberg CollectionCulture: American
Machine, Sewing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black cast iron Singer brand sewing machine in an oak vaneered case with a lid and two drawers per side. Cast iron bracket legs and treadle. Leather drive belt on the drive wheel at the side.
Klemm's Overall Manufacturing Company Workroom
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Klemm's Overall Manufacturing Co. produced overalls in this large sewing workroom with dozens of women at machines.
Needlework Basket, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Woven wicker cane sewing basket. Looped, raised scalloped rim, loop from single piece of cane on both sides to attatch handle. Two main large horizontal ribs. Smaller cane in pairs, over and under horizontal cane weave. Poor condition.
Needlework kit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)rest has an expandable pocket, three increasingly-sized swatches for pins, pocket for scissors, and a pocket with flap at the end. Green grosgrain ribbons on opposite edge of roll to tie closed, other side one piece of red silk with green leather edging. L 22" (with ribbon tie) x W 6" Diam 1 3/4".
Spinning with Distaff, from le livre des cleres et nobles femmes
Image | 1401-1500 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1401 and 1500.
AchRome
Image | 1960 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Italian