Photographs of Liebes in Studio
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Liebes, Dorothy
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content: Dorothy Liebes papers
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content: Dorothy Liebes papers / Series 11: Photographic Material
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s-circa 1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.liebdoro, Subseries 11.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries includes pictures of Liebes at work in her studio, often with other weavers such as her studio staff, or with other groups such as people participating in the American Red Cross Arts and Skills workshop. Photos of Liebes with weavers include images taken at her first studio on Powell Street in San Francisco; Liebes with Ernst Spense in the Goodall Pilot shop; Liebes with weaver Louise Fong and child; and a visit of people from the National Home Fashions League to Liebes's studio in 1961.  The series includes photographs by Esther Born, and a photograph by Irving Penn of Liebes with weaver Elsa Gullberg and Ahmedabad industrialist and philanthropist, Gautam Sarabhai.