Alteration Painting
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Women selling sewn and other items at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair to support Union soldiers, Harper’s Magazine, 1864
Women selling sewn and other items at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair to support Union soldiers, Harper’s Magazine, 1864
Women sewing for a charity bazaar, 1880s.
Women sewing for a charity bazaar, 1880s.
“The Haunted Lady, or The Ghost in the Looking-Glass,” 1862
“The Haunted Lady, or The Ghost in the Looking-Glass,” 1862
Cartoon by John Tenniel for Punch (London), reprinted in the United States.
Woodcut of women cutting, fitting, and sewing dresses, possibly a dressmaker’s shop, 1840s.
Woodcut of women cutting, fitting, and sewing dresses, possibly a dressmaker’s shop, 1840s.
Alexander Anderson. New York Public Library
Tailor’s shop, 1874
Tailor’s shop, 1874
Library of Congress
Artist now unknown (British), Pencil Sketch of a Woman Sewing, about 1836-1840
Artist now unknown (British), Pencil Sketch of a Woman Sewing, about 1836-1840
Private Collection
Poorly cut dress
Collection of Drs. K. and B. Bohleke
Enoch Wood Perry (American), A Month’s Darning, 1876
Enoch Wood Perry (American), A Month’s Darning, 1876
Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Guimpe Dress made from a wrapper of Aunt Babe’s – Jan 1899” and “Silk Petticoat made from Mama’s–Emada–Feb 1899”
“Guimpe Dress made from a wrapper of Aunt Babe’s – Jan 1899” and “Silk Petticoat made from Mama’s–Emada–Feb 1899”
Emada Durfee’s Scrapbook, Decatur Illinois. DAR Museum, 2009.23.7