Students sew and dress mannequins in class

Description

Women college students sew by hand and with sewing machines, while other students pin garments to mannequins in a Margaret Morrison Carnegie College home economics class.

Creator

Carnegie Institute of Technology

Date

1920 (year approximate)

Collection

General Photograph Collection

Extent

1 item

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Genre

black-and-white photographs

Original Repository

Carnegie Mellon University Archives

Persistent Link

http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/pmc/GPC/0000000314

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

work tables (larger tables)
Windsor chairs
sewing tools
sewing machines (equipment)
mannequins (costume equipment)
machine sewing (technique)
home economics
dressmaking
costume design
College students
cloth
Classrooms
blackboards

Subject (Name)

Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Geographic Subject

Pittsburgh (Pa.)

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