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Woman sweeping a porch properly

Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Subject Collection / Housekeeping / Large - Subjects - Housekeeping - Mary Northend photos

GUSN

GUSN-195081

Description

A woman sweeps a porch with a broom. She wears a short-sleeved dress. Vines overflow from the side of the house over the porch railing.

Details

Descriptive Terms

railings (balustrades)
balusters (railing components)
porches
brooms (maintenance tools)
women (female humans)
cleaning
vines
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000149
AccessID 399
Other identifier HNEDID-000149

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.02.3850.0100.001

Date Notes

1880s-1910s

Places

New England (United States) [general region]

Record Details

Originator

Northend, Mary H. (1850-1926) (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

housekeeping

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Subject Collection / Housekeeping / Large - Subjects - Housekeeping - Mary Northend photos

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