Title: Edward F. Worst Collection, c.1895-c.1936

Storage: Box Lot (1 box, 8x10 in.)

Accession Number: G1985.335

Description of the Collection:
Images relating to career of Worst, an educator and craftsman, who taught manual arts (in particular, textile weaving) in Chicago and Penland, NC. Subjects include portraits; students, including a series depicting their involvement in the stages of linen production; displays of his students work; Swedish women weavers from Lockport, IL; and a crafts school named in his honor in Penland, NC

Container List
Box 1
1 Edward Worst?
2 Edward Worst
3 Mr. & Mrs. Worst and son--interior of Lockport home Evangeline Worst sculpting lion statue
4 Schools and schoolchildren
5 Eastern Avenue School, Joliet, IL--Worst and students, ca.1895
6 Chicago Normal School textile class, ca. 1907--stages of linen production
7 Stages of linen production
8 Western Manual Training & Drawing Teachers' Assoc., 1917--displays at Art Institute, Chicago
9 Displays of students manual arts projects, ca. 1912-1926
10 Lockport (IL.) Home Industry, ca. 1910-1923 (later named Lockport Cottage Industries, 1923)
11 Mrs. Allard (spinner), Lockport, ca. 1920
12 Swedish weavers, Lockport
13 Penland Weavers & Potters (North Carolina) "Mountain Home" replica?
14 Edward F. Worst Crafts House, ca. 1935
15 Edward F. Worst Crafts House with students, ca. 1936
16 Illinois Lumber Co. train hauling logs to Penland, NC for construction of Worst cabin
17 Edward Worst & two fellow students in parlor (study?), ca. 1890