Women Making Bohemian Lace, July 1974
Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, 1972 - 1977. Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2006
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“Making “bohemian lace” is a tradition and craft handed down through generations of women living in New Ulm, Minnesota. Mrs. Francis Zeug, right foreground, is working on the lace. Thread is stored in small wooden bobbins called “knipples” in German. The bobbins are bought from Germany since the craft is slowly dying out. New Ulm is a county seat trading center of 13,000 in a farming area of south central Minnesota founded in 1854 by a German immigrant land company, 7/1974”
March is Women’s History Month! Women have shaped this country’s history in more ways than we can count. Long before Rosie the Riveter joined the war effort in the 1940s, women earned wages to support themselves and their families. This series of posts celebrates the diversity of women’s labor, ranging from industry to agriculture to folklore and beyond.
This month’s Women’s History series comes via Nora Sutton, one of our interns from the Department of State’s Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) program. Nora is finishing her Master’s in Public History at West Virginia University this semester.
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