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[Woman at spinning wheel puts needle pricked finger against her mouth]
Creator
Edith Sara Watson
(American, 1861 - 1943)
Date1890s-1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions18.2 x 12.7 cm
Credit LineFrances Rooney Collection. Purchase with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018
Object number2018/3597.39b
LocationNot currently on display
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![The Doukhobor woman has the art of spinning flax fibre at her finger tips. In Brilliant, B.C, This is Alecks" wife [Page 28 of The Doukhobors II album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/136444/thumbnail)
![[Woman tends to her baby in a wicker cradle, with her spinning wheel nearby] [Page 42 of Quebec I; from collection of Canadian albums compiled by Edith S. Watson, 1890s-1930s.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134452/thumbnail)
![It is not only old fingers that hold the knitting needles. Look at this baby picking up a dropped stitch! Brilliant, B.C [Page 27 of The Doukhobors II album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/136443/thumbnail)
![[Woman at her spinning wheel] [Page 43 of Quebec I; from collection of Canadian albums compiled by Edith S. Watson, 1890s-1930s.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134453/thumbnail)
![[Woman working at her spinning wheel beside window with flowers displayed], page 31 of The Doukhobors II album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/136440/thumbnail)
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
![[Elderly woman at her spinning wheel] [Page 44 of Quebec I; from collection of Canadian albums compiled by Edith S. Watson, 1890s-1930s.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134451/thumbnail)
![[Woman sitting on bench beside doorway with her spinning wheel] [Page 30 of The Doukhobors II album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/136442/thumbnail)
[Woman sitting on bench beside doorway with her spinning wheel] [Page 30 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
![[Elderly woman checks her work at the spinning wheel] [Page 46 of Quebec I; from collection of Canadian albums compiled by Edith S. Watson, 1890s-1930s.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/134449/thumbnail)
![Harvesting onions. The truck farmer of this section puts his entire trust in the labor of these sturdy Galician and Ruthenian women and employs no others [Page 21 of New Canadians album]](/internal/media/dispatcher/135572/thumbnail)
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