Making clothes for the boys in the army – Historic Print
(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: Making clothes for the boys in the army, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Making clothes for the boys in the army
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Women at a spinning wheel, a loom, and a sewing table fill this etching, titled "Making clothes for the boys in the army." It is plate 11 from *V. Blada's War Sketches*, drawn and published in Baltimore in 1864 by Adalbert Volck, a local dentist who worked under that pseudonym and sympathized with the Confederacy. With Union blockades limiting imported cloth in the South, home spinning and weaving for soldiers' garments was a real and urgent task, and the print presents it as a patriotic duty.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : etching. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Etchings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 11. |
| Subjects | Spinning--1860-1870. Weaving--1860-1870. Sewing--1860-1870. Women--Domestic life--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176990 |
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