Students weaving baskets

Description

Three women college students sit at a work table and weave baskets in a Margaret Morrison Carnegie College home economics class. Written on the blackboards behind them is a list of company names and corresponding addresses for tools and supplies.

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/0000000331

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

work tables (larger tables)
Windsor chairs
wickerwork (visual works)
wicker
weaving
twining
rattan
home economics
College students
Classrooms
blackboards
basketry (object genre)
basketmaking
basket weaving mold

Subject (Name)

Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Geographic Subject

Pittsburgh (Pa.)

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