1920-1929
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Silver Gelatin Print c. 1920s
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 2.5" x 4"

"Cora" is written in pencil on the verso of this black and white photograph taken sometime in the 1920s. Cora is sweeping the sidewalk dressed in a head scarf and a garment (perhaps a costume?) made from a cheater cloth fabric.

-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).

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