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04-060; Two Children and a Baby
1910-1919
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Mounted Photograph c. 1910-1915
Photographer: Joseph G. Morris
Size: 4" x 6.25" on a 7" x 11" mount
Three siblings pose outdoors for their portrait taken by Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania, photographer, Joseph G. Morris. The baby is covered by a quilt made from especially large flannel tobacco premiums. The flag flannels used in this quilt were the most common design, although there are many other patterns such as butterflies and Native American designs. Morris operated his photography studio at 125 Sixth Street beginning in the late 1890s. His father, David W., was a photographer, and Joseph's son, Harry J., became a photographer's apprentice at age 18. In 1894, Joseph G. Morris photographed Theodore Dreiser, the American novelist who wrote Sister Carrie in 1900 and an American Tragedy in 1925.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
Photographer: Joseph G. Morris
Size: 4" x 6.25" on a 7" x 11" mount
Three siblings pose outdoors for their portrait taken by Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania, photographer, Joseph G. Morris. The baby is covered by a quilt made from especially large flannel tobacco premiums. The flag flannels used in this quilt were the most common design, although there are many other patterns such as butterflies and Native American designs. Morris operated his photography studio at 125 Sixth Street beginning in the late 1890s. His father, David W., was a photographer, and Joseph's son, Harry J., became a photographer's apprentice at age 18. In 1894, Joseph G. Morris photographed Theodore Dreiser, the American novelist who wrote Sister Carrie in 1900 and an American Tragedy in 1925.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
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