December 1930
This December 1930 newsletter from the Biddeford Mills Museum in Biddeford, Maine, was produced for mill employees and readers interested in the Pepperell Sheets textile company. Its pictures are plain, grainy halftone snapshots of young children sitting or standing outdoors in grass, shrubbery, and beside a clapboard wall, with soft, unposed poses and no captions beyond names; a designer might take from them a nostalgic, homely, early-twentieth-century snapshot style.
