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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
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Postmistress with Bicycle

A 1950s black and white portrait photograph of a middle-aged woman in a cardigan standing beside a bicycle with a mail bag on a country road, squinting into the sun, fields behind her, film grain. View larger
Postmistress with Bicycle

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Title
Postmistress with Bicycle
Description
Calder met Harlow's postmistress on the Grange road and asked her to stand still for one picture. She stood still for four.
Creator
Ruth Calder on Main Street, 1955. A black and white photograph from the 1950s of a woman in her thirties with short wavy hair and a wool coat, holding a twin-lens reflex camera at waist height on the sidewalk of a small-town main street, looking down into the camera's viewfinder.Ruth Calder
Date
1958
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Extent
35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Provenance
Gift of the Calder estate, 2015
Identifier
2015.4.8
Subject
Portraits
Harlow
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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Ruth Calder. “Postmistress with Bicycle.” 1958. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/962 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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