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Lois D. Mathewson teaching course on decorating historical rockers
- Title (English):
- Lois D. Mathewson teaching course on decorating historical rockers
- Collection:
- Human Ecology Historical Photographs
- Set:
- Departments and Divisions
Housing and Design
- Creation Date:
- 1940
- ID Number:
- RMA00749_DD-HD-21
- Catalog Record:
- 2081762
- Archival Collection Number:
- 23-2-749
- Previous Filename:
- DD-HD-21.jpg
- File Name:
- RMA00749_DD-HD-21.jpg
- Work Type:
- photographs
- Subject:
- Furniture painting
Rocking chairs
County agricultural agents
Home economics--Study and teaching
- Description:
- County agent, Lois D. Mathewson, stencils a 19th-century pattern onto a Hitchcock-style rocking chair for Cornell College of Home Economics' first course on decorating historical rockers, taken in the mid-1940s during Summer Session. Caption reads: "Garbed in her best furniture refinishing attire, Mrs. Lois D. Mathewson, county agent in Steuben County, stencils an authentic pattern dating back to the middle 19th century on an old Hitchcock-type chair. She is refinishing the chair in a class in painting and decoration of Hitchcock-type chairs and Boston rockers, which is being conducted for the first time in the College of Home Economics at Cornell."
- Notes:
- "Photo science service negative number is 1078."
- Cite As:
- New York State College of Home Economics records, #23-2-749. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- New York State College of Home Economics records
- Box:
- 39
- Folder:
- 21
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright). Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. For questions about this item or other items in the New York State College of Home Economics records, please contact rareref@cornell.edu.
