How to Be a Girl

Name/Title

How to Be a Girl

Entry/Object ID

2022.07.07

Description

8" x 10" cardstock with print of woman in a printed dress that is sitting with her hands folded in her lap and a knife balanced across here knees. Along the edge of the cardstock written in pencil from left to right is "How to Be a Girl," "14/20," "Kathryn Joy Mayo, '08". Attached to the top fo the cardstock is an 8" x 10" tissue paper from a McCall's pattern secured by a dark thread machine stitched to the cardstock. The paper is stamped below center "McCall's, 7894, Miss Size 14, 12 (large), SIDE FRONT, COTE DU DEVANT, LADO DEL FRENTE, PARTE DA FRENTE." Below this at edge center "Cut 2, Coupes 2, Cortense 2, Corte 2." Lower, right corner is a bolded arrow pointing up. Along top of paper are two curved lines from corner to corner with instructions "Gather aong these lines, Froncer sur ces legnes, Fruncese en estas lineas, Pregueie nestas linhas." Along the top edge is bolded line with a diamond shape in the center and the number 17 next to it.

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Kathryn Joan Reeves

Made/Created

Artist

Kathryn Joy Mayo

Date made

2008

Edition

Edition

14/20

Edition Size

20

Edition Number

14

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Print

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

10 in

Width

8 in

Color

White, Black