Sitting With Our Mother
Gift of Linda Bertenthal
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1900
Children sitting on the front steps with their mother wear the clothing she made for them. The family had recently emigrated from Odessa, Russia.
"They came from Odessa, in Russia.
All the girls are wearing clothing made from the same bolt of cloth, which my grandmother did very often... not to have her children draped out in an ensemble, but because it was cheaper for her to make the dresses that way.
She was a seamstress and always made clothes. My mother always used to tell me that she had golden hands."