"Make It Yourself"

by Sarah A. Gordon

Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930

A Sewing Lesson in the Oak Grove School, Brunswick County, North Carolina

A Sewing Lesson in the Oak Grove School, Brunswick County, North Carolina

This photograph was published in a book on “practical training” in rural African American schools in 1913.

General Research & Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.