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The embroidery frame / MW. – Antique Print

The embroidery frame / MW., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
The embroidery frame / MW., [ca. 1900]. 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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Its title, *The Embroidery Frame*, points to the object at the center of the picture: a young girl at the wooden hoop and fabric that were a common fixture of parlors and sewing rooms around 1900. The print is signed with the artist's monogram, MW, and is one of the artistic photographs Frances Benjamin Johnston collected and gave to the Library of Congress in 1948. Platinum printing, prized by pictorial photographers for its soft tones and matte surface, was at its height in these years, and the picture reflects the period's interest in quiet scenes of women's everyday work. It was later published in the 2001 volume *Ambassadors of Progress* and included in that book's exhibition.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum ; 22.4 x 16.3 cm. mounted on thick dark brown paper, 29.4 x 23 cm., with teal intermediate mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Platinum prints 1900.
NotesPublished title. Signed with artist's monogram. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 184. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsGirls--1900. Embroidery--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,792 × 4,765 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219778

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