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Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

At Elsa's Fashions, 368 21st Avenue: seamstress Milagros "Millie" Cueto, customer Brenda Freytes, and seamstress Aurora Goicoechea and proprietor Elsa Mantilla.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

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Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Elsa's Fashions, a dress shop at 368 21st Avenue, Paterson.

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work processes dressmaking ethnographic photographs dominican americans 21st avenue paterson n j elsa fashions paterson nj ethnography paterson nj shop owner elsa mantilla shop owner elsa mantilla cueto goicoechea brenda freytes brenda freytes dress new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center thomas d carroll martha cooper milagros millie cueto elsa mantilla ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress
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01/01/1994
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Contributors

Carroll, Thomas D. (Collaborator)
Mantilla, Elsa (Depicted)
Cueto, Milagros "Millie" (Depicted)
Freytes, Brenda (Depicted)
Cooper, Martha (Photographer)
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Paterson (N.J.) ,  40.91667, -74.17194
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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label_outline Explore Shop Owner Elsa Mantilla, Brenda Freytes, Freytes

Elsa Mantilla, seated in the audience, watches contestants in evening gowns walk down the runway.

Two customers in conversation frame Ralph Venezia, who is making espresso.

Dominican American Contestants, onstage, wearing evening gowns.

View of Great Falls; hydro-electric building in left foreground.

Statue is carried up the steps to the front door of the church.

Exterior of Kalkstein Silk Mills showing company name.

Homewoven dress and rug, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Westmoreland homesteader wearing dress of cloth woven herself on homestead looms and working on rug woven by her homestead loom

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

People stand on front steps of church as members of Knights of Columbus walk up the steps.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Proprietor Elsa Mantilla (in dotted dress) with seamstresses Aurora Goicoechea (in long-sleeved blouse) and Milagros "Millie" Cueto; blue gown is being worked on in the background.

Warper Yefim Goldiner at work; there are 14,400 "ends" (threads) on this warp.

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work processes dressmaking ethnographic photographs dominican americans 21st avenue paterson n j elsa fashions paterson nj ethnography paterson nj shop owner elsa mantilla shop owner elsa mantilla cueto goicoechea brenda freytes brenda freytes dress new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center thomas d carroll martha cooper milagros millie cueto elsa mantilla ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress