A Group of Newly Arrived Immigrants from Kishineff, Russia
Woodbine Settlement ans School
Woodbine, New Jersey
Photographer Unknown
#7


During the last year her expense for clothing had been a little more than $23: summer hat, $1; winter hat, $1.98; best hat $2; shoes (2 pairs at $2.98, 2 pairs rubbers), $7.16; wrap (long coat), $2.98; skirt (a best black brilliantine, worn two years), at $5.50, $2.75; underskirt (black sateen), 98 cents; shirtwaist ( black cotton, worn everyday in the year), black tights, 98 cents; 2 union suits at $1.25 (one every other year), $1.25; 9 pairs of stockings at 25 cents, $1.50.



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