[Home economics classes]: Class of girls rolling pastry, New Orleans, La. – Antique Wall Art
![[Home economics classes]: Class of girls rolling pastry, New Orleans, La., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/1163950193dc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Home economics classes]: Class of girls rolling pastry, New Orleans, La.
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Girls in a New Orleans home economics class are shown rolling pastry dough, a lesson in the domestic skills that schools taught to young women in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cooking; Sewing; Women--Education; La.; Univ....; Home Economics; Women--Employment; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140400 |
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