Picture No | 12688941 |
Date | 1926 |
Description | Mlle. Loger, first girl to enter world-famous Gobelin works |
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Mlle. Loger, a seventeen year-old French girl seen at her loom in the Gobelins tapestry works in Paris. During the company's four centuries, it had not, until that point, ever employed a female worker but Mlle. Loger won her position as the best designer among a number of boy and girl competitors. The Sphere explains she will be a student worker for two year, and an apprentice for ten more years.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in ‘The Sphere’, 13 March 1926 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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