Olive Loring Portrait

Basic details

Olive Loring Portrait is an art original, with genre portraits.

Its dimensions are 15.75 in. x 11.69 in..

It was created sometime in 1840.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This is a pen and pencil portrait of Olive Loring, first Worthington milliner. Olive Loring documents stylish appearance in Worthington and models a hairstyle featuring bands of hair in front of ears " Victoria loops", very detailed costume includes lace edged tucker, collapsed leg of mutton sleeves pleated above the elbow, waist pointed in front. Loring also marks the change in lifestyle for Worthington from the pioneer weaving, spinning, dying, sewing to the arrival of a milliner and the means of local women to buy dressmaking services.

Subjects

It covers the topics art and businesswomen.

It covers the city Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0173.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 55-G-83.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on February 6, 2002. It was last updated November 6, 2025.

Copyright

No Copyright - United States

Olive Loring Portrait from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Olive Loring Portrait. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.