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Needlework of All Kinds

by The Library of Congress

Thread your way through this selection of images featuring needlepoint, embroidery and all kinds of needlework from the Prints & Photographs Division.

25 photos · 18 views

[Lewis and Maynard White looking at a book] (LOC)

Venice. Young girls learning embroidering in the schools maintained by the A.R.C. (LOC)

Exhibit of needlework at Gonzales County Fair. Gonzales, Texas (LOC)

Borden Harriman needlework (LOC)

[Trademark registration by M. Guggenheim's Sons for [Woman embroidering scalloped lace logo] brand Hamburg Edgings, Swiss Embroideries, and Like Fabrics] (LOC)

Washington and his family (LOC)

K. K. Larkin (LOC)

Lace maker by the wayside, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (LOC)

The embroidery frame (LOC)

Spanish-American woman doing needlework. Many of the homes in this section show the love of the Spanish-Americans for colorful decoration. Chamisal, New Mexico (LOC)

One of the embroideries made by Mr. Gaetano Simone, Italian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Made a number of years ago during his spare time while unemployed. Westville, Connecticut (LOC)

"Waiting for Papa" (LOC)

Lace workers in American Red Cross workrooms (LOC)

Interior of labor home. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California (LOC)

The proprietor of the curio shop is also well-known for her needle work. She and her husband were homesteaders. Her husband is now sick and unable to farm. They live in town, renting out their log house and farm to a young couple. Pie Town, New Mexico (L

Wife of Acting Navy Secretary views prize winning needlework of girl scouts. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. Mrs. Charles Edison, wife of the acting Secretary of the Navy was honor guest today at a private showing of prize winning samplers selected from a natio

[Trademark registration by Edwin A. Fitch for [Woman sewing needlepoint Logo] brand Embroideries] (LOC)

Argonne Embroidery. The Argonne forest bids fair to become as famous for its embroidery as for its battles. Under the guidance of the Society of Friends of Philadelphia and the American Red Cross, hundreds of women and girls are supporting themselves by m

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Embroidering a handbag at the handicrafts cooperative (LOC)

Women at El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs (LOC)

WPA Index of American Design exhibition (LOC)

An embroiderer (LOC)

A Durbar Elephant in rich gold and jewel embroidered jhool [blanket] Delhi, India (LOC)

Telemarken girl in national costume making Hardanger embroidery, Norway (LOC)

Embroidering on the street, Lucerne, Switzerland (LOC)