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02-062; Vaudeville Actress
1890-1899
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Dundee, Deerfield, and Petersburgh, Michigan, United States
Cabinet Card c. 1885-1892
Photographer: C. Casey, Dundee, Deerfield, and Petersburgh, Michigan
Size: 4.25" x 6.5"
Occupational Cabinet Cards are rare and much sought after by collectors. Here is a rare example depicting a vaudeville actress holding a tambourine, showing some cleavage, and wearing a costume constructed in the manner of the ever-popular Crazy quilt craze.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
Photographer: C. Casey, Dundee, Deerfield, and Petersburgh, Michigan
Size: 4.25" x 6.5"
Occupational Cabinet Cards are rare and much sought after by collectors. Here is a rare example depicting a vaudeville actress holding a tambourine, showing some cleavage, and wearing a costume constructed in the manner of the ever-popular Crazy quilt craze.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
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Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt Hi...
Finley, Janet E.
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