anna maria von Phul - Kirsten Hammerstrom

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Smock it to Me

Posted on February 18, 2015 by kittycalash

Edited to correct numerous typos and to add a bad sketch of the OSV apron. Don’t try to do research while conducting a small but energetic boy through a m...

Clothing/Living History/Museums/Research

Make All the Coats

Posted on October 1, 2014 by kittycalash

As far as I know, that’s not an internet meme yet, but it might as well be. It’s meme in my head, and that’s what counts. While I should be th...

Clothing/History

Frivolous Friday: Fashionable Reading

Posted on May 2, 2014 by kittycalash

Anna Maria von Phul’s delicate watercolors of Saint Louis in 1818 (example at left) remind us that cities in the hinterland of America have never been as ...