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[Home Economics]

Description: Photograph of students in a home economics class, learning about sewing and alterations. The woman on the left sits with a sketch of the woman standing across from her. The woman standing wears a dress that is being altered by a third woman at her feet.
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Make and Mend

Description: Booklet describing the best ways to mend, alter, or reuse clothing in order to make garments last longer or avoid buying new items during World War II.
Date: 1942
Creator: The Spool Cotton Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Women sewing]

Description: Photograph of women sewing in a room in the old Pan American Recreation Center on 3rd and Comal Streets. Most women sit at sewing machines while four women crowd together on a bench and sew or embroider by hand. four women stand at a table in the back for cutting fabric A young boy of a bout five sits on footrest in the foreground. There is Mexican art on the walls and the only door to the room is open. The Pan American Recreation Center was opened in June 1942 as the first Latin American Rec… more
Date: November 20, 1946
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Dress fitting at Pan American Recreation Center]

Description: Photograph of a woman standing with her right arm lifted while a seamstress works on the waistline of her dress. More women are working on sewing machines or sewing by hand. Several women measure and cut fabric in the back. This sewing room was in the old Pan American Recreation Center at 3rd Street and Comal Street. The Pan American Recreation Center was opened in June 1942 as the first Latin American Recreation Center in Austin and run under the auspices of the Federated Latin American Club… more
Date: November 19, 1946
Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Lab., Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Concentration by Joe De Mers

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, no. 52, a blonde woman sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by tea and sewing supplies. She is following a magazine to embellish a straw garden hat with flowers, which she is holding up to examine intently. On the facing page, a dialogue between a model wearing a swimsuit and a man wearing a tan suit is taking place on a photo shoot set. The two individuals are surrounded by lights, chairs,… more
Date: June 1947
Creator: De Mers, Joe & Willis, Fritz
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Enid Justin with the sewing department of the Nocona Boot Factory]

Description: Photograph of Enid Justin at a sewing machine and standing in front of the sewing department inside the Nocona Boot Factory in June 1948. Justin is wearing a simple, patterned dress that fits with the working environment and also wears a smile on her face. The workers are diligently working at the sewing machines or talking to the person across from them.
Date: 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Hutchinson & Company to Daniel W. Kempner, July 27, 1944]

Description: Letter from Hutchinson & Company to Daniel W. Kempner informing Kempner that the company does various types of repairs for shirts, but it will take three weeks due to their workload. The company asks for Kempner to send the shirts if he is ok with waiting and what specifically needs to be fixed.
Date: July 27, 1944
Creator: Hutchinson & Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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