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[Woman modeling dress and cloak] – Historic Print

[Woman modeling dress and cloak], 1915 — historic photograph
[Woman modeling dress and cloak], 1915. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Woman modeling dress and cloak], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A woman poses in a dress and cloak in this 1915 print, which carries a copyright line in the name of Salt's and a caption card filed under business and clothing. Studio images like this were often made to show garments to buyers, catalog readers, or shop customers, so the figure is there to display the cut and fabric rather than to tell a personal story. In the mid-1910s, the cloak was a common piece of a woman's outerwear, and fashion was moving away from the fuller, more elaborate styles of the early decade toward simpler lines. The record is unverified and not yet fully processed, so the maker and the sitter remain uncertain.

Created / published1915
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCopyright by Salt's, 1915. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Business; Clothing...--1915; Shelf. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 391.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139272

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