Studio portrait of a seated woman, circa 1918

About this postcard

A young woman sits on a dark wooden bench in a photographer's studio, wearing a light sleeveless dress, eyeglasses, and a necklace, with white stockings and dark heeled shoes. Behind her, a dark paneled window is hung with lace-edged curtains, and a large bouquet of roses sits at her right. Studio sittings like this were a common way for families to mark an occasion and to have a likeness to hand to relatives and friends. Her glasses and simple sleeveless dress fit the everyday fashion of the late 1910s and 1920s, when such portraits were often made as real-photo postcards that could be mailed or kept in an album.