Bodice of blue silk with white pinstripes and tiny red and green flowers, high collar with lace insert, leg-o-mutton sleeves, tight fitting cuffs with lace inserts; boned.
Embroidered picture in black and white, this technique was known as "printwork" because it imitated etchings and engravings. The composition has been sketched out in pencil and the embroidering in the foreground has been begun with tiny stitches....
O'Donoghue's Restaurant is in a frame building on Main Street, east of Broadway. To its left are the tiny brick Mazeppa Engine Company and the large Presidential Life Building. O'Donoghue's has been owned by the same family since the 1840s.
The coal silos are in the background, towering over South Nyack. In the middle is the tiny ice house with its high peaked roof, and in the front is a four-door Chevrolet (?).
This two-and-a half story house may have been on lower Main Street. The bow window with shutters next to the tiny front porch is unusual. The only reference to a Marshall in the Nyack Directories mentions a woman who took in boarders.
A woman - neither young nor old- looks steadily at something, not at the photographer. her hair is pulled back severely, except for the fringe of tiny curls above her forehead. Her dress and collar have detailed embroidery and matching buttons....
