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Can this be dated?
LOC, sorry I lost the call number, I will find and add.
LOC, sorry I lost the call number, I will find and add.
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Re: Sewing Image...date?
Judging from hair, clothing, and the fact there is a sewing machine we have at least eliminated years it could be. Judging from those facts the photograph of this woman appears to be ca. 1847-1854.Sincerely,
Emmanuel Dabney
Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
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"God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops -
Re: Sewing Image...date?
The sewing machine looks an awful lot like an early model Grover & Baker, one of the heavy ones, not the later portable ones. If it is, the machine could have been made between about 1852-1860, thus dating the picture to no earlier than 1852. (See Bays' Encyclopedia of Early American Sewing Machines, p. 91.) I agree with Emmanuel that the woman's wide collar and hairstyle indicate a significantly pre-war date.Originally posted by Emmanuel Dabney
Well guess what! I typed the paragraph above and then went to try to find a picture of a Grover & Baker machine online. I typed Grover Baker into google image search, and guess what popped up: The same picture at http://www.narhist.ewu.edu/usweb.html . The caption there reads: "...this picture (ca. 1853) of a woman at work at 'an industrial model Grover and Baker sewing machine.' "
Hank Trent
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