Woman spinning in Swedish Folk Art exhibition, February 1937

• Main Author: Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Clothing & dress; Costumes > Swedish; Exhibitions; Frederick & Nelson; Furniture; Spinning; Spinning apparatus; Swedish Americans > Arts & Crafts; Soderlund; Ingeborg; Mrs; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6658

In mid-February 1937, various Swedish groups sponsored a Swedish Folk Art Exhibit at Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store. Exhibits included handicrafts, utensils, furniture, and weaving and spinning demonstrations. During the exhibit, Mrs. Ingeborg Soderlund demonstrated how to spin thread on an early 19th century wheel brought to Seattle from Gamtland in northern Sweden. This photo, taken in Seattle in February 1937, shows Ingeborg Soderlund spinning thread on an antique spinning wheel. Both her wheel and her clothing came from Gamtland in northern Sweden. Written on negative: Mrs. Ingeborg Soderlund 1 negative: safety film, b&w; 4 x 5 in.