Weaving on an old loom
About this photograph
From the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Archival Collection.
- Date created
- September 18, 1932
- Location
- Asheville, North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1932. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by Southern Highland Craft Guild, Archival Collection
See this photograph in context
- North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 7.7)
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A woman is seated and working at an old loom in a cabin in this photograph from the 1930s. A spinning wheel stands on the hearth of the fireplace in the room. A couple of braided rugs are on the floor. Writing at the bottom of the photograph reads, “Weaving on Old Loom ‘The Spinning Wheel’ Asheville, N.C.” The photograph is on the front of a postcard sent to Frances Goodrich.
