Illustration from an early 20th-century postcard for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” A woman, dressed in an early 20th-century rendition of 17th-century clothing, wears a dress and a cloth cap. She is seated on a straight-backed chair or bench and is spinning on an upright double flyer wheel. A man, also in period dress, bareheaded, leans towards her.
