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Working in Paterson

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Item Title

Proprietor Elsa Mantilla (in dotted dress) with seamstresses Aurora Goicoechea (in long-sleeve blouse) and Milagros "Millie" Cueto.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Cooper, Martha

Created/Published

August 15, 1994

Notes

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Subjects

Dominican Americans
Dressmaking
Ethnographic photographs
Work processes
Ethnography
Photographs
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
21st Avenue
Elsa's Wholesale & Retail

Object Type

still image

Related Names

Collaborator: Carroll, Thomas D.
Depicted: Cueto, Milagros "Millie"
Depicted: Goicoechea, Aurora
Depicted: Mantilla, Elsa

Medium

35 mm color slide

Language

English

Call Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-MC-C029-05

Reproduction Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-MC-C029-05

Part of

Working in Paterson Folklife Project

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afcwip mcc02905
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.mcc02905