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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
An illustration of everyday girls’ fashions from the 1860s.

An illustration of everyday girls’ fashions from the 1860s.

Citation Information
“Young Misses And Children’s Fashions For July,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/df55361b78dcf68e263a671a19cd2e5b.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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Item 4 of 10 in the Primary Source Set Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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A photographic portrait of Louisa May Alcott, circa 1865.
A photograph from the mid-1800s of a woman knitting.
A photograph of models in the 1940s posing in 1860s fashions.
An illustration of everyday girls’ fashions from the 1860s.
A letter from a Massachusetts soldier serving in the Civil War to his wife and children, January 20, 1862.
A clothes iron from 1862.
A medicine chest, circa 1860-1880.
A poem about women hand-knitting socks for Civil War soldiers.
A letter describing the symptoms of scarlet fever suffered by a young girl in Weymouth, Massachusetts, circa 1838.
A dip pen, used in the 1860s, which would have been dipped into an inkwell to write.

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