Real Photo Postcard of “The Little Band of Workers” at First Christian Church, Oak Harbor, Ohio.
Oak Harbor, Ohio: 1908. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Photograph shows a group of women and children gathered around a quilt frame inside a church or meeting room, with a finished or partially finished quilt visible in the foreground. Manuscript caption in left margin reads, “The little band of workers at the First Christian Church, Oak Harbor, O.” Divided postcard back, postally used from Oak Harbor, Ohio to Oxford, Ohio, March 17, 1908. Addressed to Miss Charlotte Bredehoft, with brief family message signed “Mamma.”. Light wear, toning, and soiling; very good. Item #List38140
A real photo postcard showing a women’s church work group gathered around a quilt frame at First Christian Church in Oak Harbor, Ohio. The manuscript caption identifies the group as “the little band of workers,” a phrase consistent with women’s aid societies and church sewing circles of the period. The image shows several generations of women and children in the room, with the quilt frame at the center and another quilt or textile draped prominently in the foreground. Quilting and sewing groups were important parts of women’s church life, producing goods for fundraising, charity, household use, and congregational support. The postcard records that work in a named church room, with the quilt frame at the center of the group and women and children gathered around it.
Price: $200.00