Original Candid Albumen Photograph of the Lasell Cooking Class, 1885
Boston: McCormick, 1885. Very Good. Item #47020
Boston: McCormick, 1885. Original large albumen photograph (19.5x23.5cm) mounted to stiff grey card stock (25.5x27cm). Scattered spotting to image, some waviness from exposure to damp, unevenly fixed, especially at the bottom left-hand corner, else Very Good. Photographer's identifying address label affixed to verso (McCormick / 22 Winter St / Boston).
Rare candid interior shot of a private cooking class, the six women in the image all identified in pencil on photograph verso in a manuscript hand (we should note one of them is referred to as George Mires, maybe a typo for Georgia--none of the students are dressed in men's attire at any rate). The class is crowded around a table in a spacious high-ceilinged kitchen, the instructor identified as the woman with the spoon pinned to her dress. The kitchen table is the portion of the photograph that is most poorly fixed, though it appears the women are learning to bake--one woman uses a wooden spoon to mix batter in a bowl, another pensively holds her rolling pin. .
Price: $500.00