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Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, placket
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, French seam
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, gathering, shirring, and gauging
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, hemmed fell seam
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, mitered corners
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, over-casting
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, over-handed or French fell seam
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, placket
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, stages of making a buttonhole
Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, stitched fell seam

Home Economics sewing sample, 1921, placket

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Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection

Sewing sample pages from the Home Economics 3 class notebook kept by Olive True Smith, UNH Class of 1921. At the time of her attendance, the University of New Hampshire was called New Hampshire Colleg..

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Sewing sample pages from the Home Economics 3 class notebook kept by Olive True Smith, UNH Class of 1921. At the time of her attendance, the University of New Hampshire was called New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Irma Bowen came to New Hampshire College in 1920 to teach textile classes, focusing both on techniques and the history of clothing. She began gathering garments for students to examine in class for enlightenment and inspiration, the beginnings of what is known today as the Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection.

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The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire..

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The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.

Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.

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Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Width: 21 cm / 8.25 in.

Length: 27.3 cm / 10.75 in.

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Paper, cotton, paper rivet

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