Hair Wreath
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- Created Date
- ca. 1875
- Description
Hair wreath appears to be tatted out of hair around wires. Made by Lodema Hepzibah Todd Ketcham,born October 25, 1826 at Hinsdale, New Hampshire to Caleb Todd and Abigail Hooker Blanchard Todd. She married William Ketcham on December 31, 1856 at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Lodema died April 20, 1881 and is buried at Button Cemetery. The wreath is said to be made of family member's hair. Lodema is pictured within the wreath, which was a typical arrangement. As a young woman, she attended a girl's school in New England, where she may have been taught this art. Creating hair wreaths was considered a suitable activity for young women during this era. Her husband, William Ketcham was born in May 24, 1819 at Jericho, Long Island, New York, into the Quaker family of John and Rebecca Sherman Ketcham. He worked in the lumber business in Maine, and when he came to Wisconsin in 1851, he operated a saw mill in Richland City, near the point where the Pine River flows into the Wisconsin River. The logs
- Creator
Todd Ketcham, Lodema Hepzibah (1828-1881)
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Richland County History Room
- Collection
- Brewer Public Library
- Type
- image
- Rights
- This work by Richland County History Room, Richland Center Wisconsin is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
- Chicago citation style
- Todd Ketcham, Lodema Hepzibah (1828-1881). Hair Wreath. ca. 1875. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/3797. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Todd Ketcham, Lodema Hepzibah (1828-1881), (ca. 1875) Hair Wreath. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/3797
- MLA citation style
- Todd Ketcham, Lodema Hepzibah (1828-1881). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/3797>.