Category: Series: Caught Our Eyes

Caught Our Eyes: Tower Bridges in Boston, Massachusetts

May 9, 2012

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

This image, found while browsing for bridges in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, lured a colleague in for a closer look.  I was glancing over her shoulder, and the photograph drew me in and stirred my curiosity, too. We were struck by the clarity and beautiful geometry of the image, one of the recently …

Posted in: Architecture, Photographs, Series: Caught Our Eyes, Visual literacy

Caught Our Eyes: Sisters Who Weave

August 17, 2011

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

On September 26, 1859, sisters Lucretia Electa and Louisa Ellen Crossett stood before photographer Alfred Hall to have their portrait taken together in Lawrence, Massachusetts. I like to think of them as mill workers participating in the expanding American Industrial Revolution. The sisters, dressed in identical aprons, blouses, and simple jewelry, are both holding weaving …

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