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Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 1 – Vintage Wall Art

Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 1 — historic photograph
Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 1. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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: Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 1, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 1

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An elderly woman in a sunbonnet, the brimmed cloth hat many rural women wore to shield their faces from sun while working outdoors, is the entire subject of this photograph. Dating to about 1930, the print comes from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, where portraits of ordinary American people from this period are kept as a record of everyday life. The sunbonnet had been a common piece of farm and domestic dress for decades by then, and the "no. 1" in the title suggests it was one of a numbered series of studies. Its plain, close framing puts the emphasis on the sitter's face and clothing rather than on any setting.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126350

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