(click for huge)This dear soul posed for her photo with a spinning wheel once, probably around 1900, and in recent years she has become the ubiquitous image for spinning wheel postcards, always touted as being the rarest of the rare. Uh huh.
In any event, it is a stunning image, and her face, her hands, and her clothing tell an eloquent tale of her life. And the appearance of the wheel tells a tale, in turn, of its hard-worked life.