The life & age of woman : Stages of woman's life from the cradle to the grave / Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St., New York & 136 Main St., Hartford, Conn.

Notes:

Depiction of women at various life stages, from infancy to death. Includes eleven images of women ascending and then descending a set of steps with corresponding scenes of their lives beneath them. Included is an infant in a cradle, a girl holding a doll, a young woman holding a rose, a woman wearing a wedding dress, a mother and infant, a middle aged woman wearing a cape, an older woman holding scales and a set of keys, an older woman holding a kerchief and looking away from the viewer, an elderly woman holding a cane, another elderly woman hunched over holding a cane, and a last elderly woman sitting in a chair knitting. Below the steps is a vignette showing three figures standing over a new gravesite as a hearse arrives. Below each woman is a line of corresponding verse.

Data Provider:

University of Michigan. Libraries

Collection:

William L. Clements Library Image Bank

Subject Topic:

Women--1840-1850.; Life cycle--1840-1850.; Aging--1840-1850.; Clothing & dress--1840-1850.; Miscellaneous prints.; Prints shelf.; Ensigns & Thayer,--publisher.; United States--New York--Buffalo.

Language:

UND

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