Cabinet card, 1890-1900 (b/w photo)

Full length portrait of 3 young women seated in a room with a painted studio backdrop of an archway and window with a painted drape to the left and a heavy embroidered drape to the right. All of the woman are working on crochet samples and they all wear their hair in a plaited chignon. The woman on the left and the woman in the centre are wearing similar dark wool dresses with standing collars and full length fitted sleeves with kick up pleats at the sleeve head. The woman on the left wears a beaded bodice and the woman beside her has an embroidered bodice. The woman on the right is wearing a lighter wool dress with leg of mutton sleeves and a pleated bodice front.