In Part 2 of this series, I concluded that despite scarce photographic evidence, American women who participated in the movement West in the early to mid-19th century really did wear sunbonnets on a regular basis. Surviving physical examples, newspaper references, and written … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Why This Historic Photo of St. Louis is Amazing [Mid-19th Century Sunbonnets, Part 3]
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Romanticized Myth or Pioneering Reality? [Mid-19th Century Sunbonnets, Part 2]
The Sunbonnet: Genuine frontier clothing, or inaccurate cliché? Picture in your mind a woman of the 1800's living on the American frontier. What do you see? She is probably riding in a covered wagon or hanging laundry nearby a log cabin. This woman is likely wearing a printed … [Read more...] about Romanticized Myth or Pioneering Reality? [Mid-19th Century Sunbonnets, Part 2]
