Aunt Fanny Smith spins wool by hand, Georgia mountains, ca. 1930s

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/a21a0120f7fd6d826b203c43b4f88fc4

Title

Aunt Fanny Smith spins wool by hand, Georgia mountains, ca. 1930s

Creator

Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Date

1930/1949

Description

Aunt Fanny Smith is one of the few mountain Arachnes left who spin by hand wool right from the sheep's back, and knit mittens, gloves and socks from the yarn." (Newspaper caption attached to verso of print).
Local identification number: AJCP551-48p
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library

Subject

Mountain life
Country life
Spinning
Spinning apparatus
Wool

Source

Digital Library of Georgia

Relation

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gsu/ajc/do-th:590

Type

image

References

http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/590

Citation

Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Aunt Fanny Smith spins wool by hand, Georgia mountains, ca. 1930s,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 20, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7027.

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