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Image Not Available for Woman slices a thick piece of brown bread from one of many large wheat loaves in the kitchen]
Woman slices a thick piece of brown bread from one of many large wheat loaves in the kitchen]
Image Not Available for Woman slices a thick piece of brown bread from one of many large wheat loaves in the kitchen]

Woman slices a thick piece of brown bread from one of many large wheat loaves in the kitchen]

Creator Edith Sara Watson (American, 1861 - 1943)
Date1890s-1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions16.7 x 11.8 cm
Credit LineFrances Rooney Collection. Purchase with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018
Object number2018/3597.55a
LocationNot currently on display

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Not cheeses, hot giant loaves of brown bread, baked in a big Community oven in Brilliant, B.C [Page 43 of Wells and Pots album]
Not cheeses, hot giant loaves of brown bread, baked in a big Community oven in Brilliant, B.C [Page 43 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
A "farmerette" of the Canadian prairie tendig the big loaves of bread a-baking in the out-of-door oven In Gonor, Man.
A "farmerette" of the Canadian prairie tendig the big loaves of bread a-baking in the out-of-door oven In Gonor, Man.
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Print
The out of door oven in which is baked the great loaves of French bread. In St. Francis du Lac, Que. [Page 44 of Wells and Pots album]
The out of door oven in which is baked the great loaves of French bread. In St. Francis du Lac, Que. [Page 44 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Sometimes the bake oven is set up in the old barn! Big French loaves for the "grande famille". In Isle aux Coudres, Que. [Page 45 of Wells and Pots album]
Sometimes the bake oven is set up in the old barn! Big French loaves for the "grande famille". In Isle aux Coudres, Que. [Page 45 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Image Not Available for [Wheat field worker holds a long, white tool over his shoulder while gazing into the camera; many teams of horses work on the threshing floor behind him.]
[Wheat field worker holds a long, white tool over his shoulder while gazing into the camera; many teams of horses work on the threshing floor behind him.]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Print
Image Not Available for [Two woman winnowing wheat, one woman is bent over gathering grain in hands]
[Two woman winnowing wheat, one woman is bent over gathering grain in hands]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Print
Mr. Peter Verigin, President of this Christian community of Universal Brotherhood giving directions to a group of men who have just arrived from one of the fruit giving communities to the prairie community of Veregin, Sask. to help in the wheat harvesting [Page 62 of The Doukhobors II album]
Mr. Peter Verigin, President of this Christian community of Universal Brotherhood giving directions to a group of men who have just arrived from one of the fruit giving communities to the prairie community of Veregin, Sask. to help in the wheat harvesting [Page 62 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Image Not Available for [Two women winnowing wheat, separating wheat from chaff]
[Two women winnowing wheat, separating wheat from chaff]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Print
Image Not Available for Bread for Budapest. From a lorry stacked with loaves, Red Cross workers distribute bread In a Budapest street.
Bread for Budapest. From a lorry stacked with loaves, Red Cross workers distribute bread In a Budapest street.
Planet News Ltd
From Early spring until late in the fall by every highway in Rural Quebec one happens upon many a housewife, turning with titadinous service a great iron pot or cauldron! In Petit Pré Que. [Page 37 of Wells and Pots album]
From Early spring until late in the fall by every highway in Rural Quebec one happens upon many a housewife, turning with titadinous service a great iron pot or cauldron! In Petit Pré Que. [Page 37 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Image Not Available for The same experiment is carried out with a make subject. It was found that the male slices the bread more steadily than the woman as the woman is more fatiqued.
The same experiment is carried out with a make subject. It was found that the male slices the bread more steadily than the woman as the woman is more fatiqued.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
WInnowing wheat by hand, on a primitive threshing floor, with handmade tools. Their experience with wheat back on the grain fields of Russia is invaluable to Canada and the allies at this time.
WInnowing wheat by hand, on a primitive threshing floor, with handmade tools. Their experience with wheat back on the grain fields of Russia is invaluable to Canada and the allies at this time.
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Print
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