Marian MacDowell Delivering Lunch

Marian MacDowell delivering lunch baskets, ca. 1919.
Margaret Widdemer.
Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (11)
Digital ID#ppmsca-13428

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Marian MacDowell Delivering Lunch

The picnic basket tradition at The MacDowell Colony dates back to when Marian MacDowell brought lunch to her husband in his log cabin studio to prevent the mid-day meal from disrupting his work. In the early years, Marian delivered lunch to the colonists herself, traveling the Colony’s dirt roads in her horse-drawn cart. Poet and Colony Fellow Margaret Widdemer took this photo, probably in 1919.

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