Sewing Heritage: More Stitching Up Old Glory
As a follow up to last week’s sewing heritage post, this photo is quite striking. In sharp contrast to the highly-mechanized sewing of the American flag in the factory of the Brooklyn Yard, this woman, in 1917—which is about the same time as last week’s photo, is hand-stitching an American flag. As Josh said, can you imagine the intense work that went into sewing this by hand?
Photo credit: DN-0069332, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society
~Sarah
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