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Unidentified photographer
Portrait of a woman knitting or doing crochet
n.d.
Ambrotype, hand-painted

Private collection of Susan Higginbotham

LL/125405

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Unidentified photographer
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth
1864
Carte de visite

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-6165 (3-11b)

LL/53132

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Unidentified photographer (American)
Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"
1864
Carte de visite

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013, Accession Number:2013.54

LL/101671

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I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth
1860s (ca)
Carte de visite

Private collection of Laddy Kite

LL/35978

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Unidentified photographer
[Woman knitting]
1905-1915 (ca)
Real photo postcard

Private collection of Brian Smolens

LL/30198

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Wm. Notman & Son
Madame Desjardins, knitting, Montreal, QC
1890
Gelatin silver process
17.8 x 12.7 cm

McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase, funds graciously donated by Maclean’s magazine, the Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation and Empire-Universal Films Ltd., Accession Number: II-92351

LL/124140

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Unidentified photographer
A Nun knitting, Poor Clares Priory, Woodchester, Stroud, Gloucestershire
1900s (early)
Glass negative

Private collection of James Morley

LL/124263

7 of 24

Unidentified photographer
Nuns knitting, Poor Clares Priory, Woodchester, Stroud, Gloucestershire
1900s (early)
Glass negative

Private collection of James Morley

LL/124260

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A. Becske (Veszprem, Hungary)
Three women knitting
1880s
Carte de visite

Promenade Collect

LL/124141

9 of 24

Wm. Notman & Son
Mrs. Brock, Montreal, QC
1909
Gelatin silver process
20.3 x 25.4 cm

McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase, funds graciously donated by Maclean’s magazine, the Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation and Empire-Universal Films Ltd., Accession Number II-177709

LL/124143

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Unidentified photographer
Three women with a knitting foreground, Knotts Berry Farm Amusement Park. Buena Park
1950s (ca)
Gelatin silver print

Private collection of Christopher Steiner

LL/124142

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Cornell Capa
A Russian orthodox nun sewing in a convent, Zagorsk
1958
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20

Peter Fetterman Gallery

LL/431

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Unidentified photographer
Anonymous Amputee at a Sewing Machine
1890 (after)
Tintype, 3/4 plate
7 x 5

Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
Courtesy of Jeffrey Kraus

LL/6242

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Longshaw (Warrington)
Occupational portraits of two people with sewing machines
1870s (ca)
Carte de visite

Paul Frecker

LL/14267

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Staley Bros. (Tullahome, Tenn.)
Sewing Machine Salsmen
n.d.
Cabinet card

Private collection of Doug York

LL/125537

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Fred T. Palmer (London, Ramsgate, Croydon)
A woman working with lace
n.d.
Carte de visite

Private collection of Jerilyn Marshall

LL/65825

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Jacob A. Riis
Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic
1897 (published)
Book illustration

Harvard University Library

LL/39235 [Further details available]

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W.H. Ackley (West Winsted, Conn.)
Portrait of a woman doing crochet
n.d.
Cabinet card

Private collection of Robert E. Jackson

LL/98308

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Unidentified photographer
Two women crocheting
n.d.
Tintype

Private collection of Richard Lee Bland

LL/65813

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France Lumière [Attributed to]
The Lumière brothers crocheting
1907
Autochrome
13 x 18 cm

Private collection - Scheibli
© Collection Scheibli

LL/8892 [Further details available]

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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Sewing machine, Kuwait
1955
Gelatin silver print

Galerie Agathe Gaillard
© Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - courtesy of Galerie Agathe Gaillard (Paris, France)

LL/12499 [Further details available]

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Emile Joachim Constant Puyo
Am Stickrahmen
[Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #3)]
1900
Photogravure
16.5 x 22.7 cm

Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com

LL/18686 [Further details available]

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Lady Lucy Bridgeman (British, 1826-1858)
Untitled
1856 (ca)
Albumen print
trimmed: 11 x 15.6 cm (4 5/16 x 6 1/8 ins)

Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, anonymous gift, Object Number: x1991-192

LL/44649

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Ilse Bing
Two Women Knitting
1947
Gelatin silver print
10 5/8 x 13 3/8 in

Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (W1485.0)

LL/12636 [Further details available]

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1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Photographers

PhV	Ilse Bing
PhV	Cornell Capa
PhV	Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
PhV	Wm. Notman & Son
PhV	Emile Joachim Constant Puyo
PhV	Jacob A. Riis

Online Exhibitions

PhV	Autochromes: Invention
PhV	Die Kunst in der Photographie (1900)
PhV	Documentary: 19th Century Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Live
PhV	Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
PhV	Portrait: Scientists
PhV	Real Photo Postcards - Portraits: The Brian Smolens Collection

Contents - Themes & Fragments

PhV	African Americans - Abolitionists
PhV	Ambrotypes - Ambrotypes: Portrait
PhV	Ambrotypes - Painted ambrotypes
PhV	American struggles for civil rights - Abolitionists
PhV	Architecture - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Autochromes - Autochromes: Invention
PhV	Autochromes - The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes
PhV	Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Christianity - Nuns
PhV	Cityscapes - Urban - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Colour - Introduction to colour
PhV	Colour - The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes
PhV	Die Kunst in der Photographie - Die Kunst in der Photographie (1900)
PhV	Documentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Early social commentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Evidence - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Hand-painted photographs - Painted ambrotypes
PhV	Housing conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Leisure - Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet
PhV	Magic lanterns - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	New York - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Occupational - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Occupations and roles - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Occupations and roles - Tintypes: Occupationals
PhV	Painting on photographs - Painted ambrotypes
PhV	Platinum prints - William B. Dyer: Platinum prints
PhV	Portrait - Ambrotypes: Portrait
PhV	Poverty - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Slavery, abolition and civil rights - Abolitionists
PhV	Sports and pastimes - Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet
PhV	Tintypes - Tintypes: Occupationals
PhV	Urban life - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	USA - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
PhV	Working conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives