Alsace-Lorraine Girl

Titled "Alsace-Lorraine girl" in the library's records, about 1906. Later identified as a girl from the Kochersberg area near Strasbourg. Shown in profile, she wears the huge black ribbon bow of Alsatian traditional dress, which rises above her head like a pair of wings, and a fringed shawl over her shoulders. The side view makes it easy to see how the bow sat on the back of her head.