Making clothes for the boys in the army.
Three women sit in a crowded room, engaged in the entire process of making clothing. On the far right, a woman wearing a bonnet spins the raw material into thread. The thread is then woven into cloth by the woman in the center working the loom. On the right, a woman sews the finished pieces into garments for Confederate soldiers.; Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 11.; Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.
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