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. — Postmistress with Bicycle

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Title: Postmistress with Bicycle
Subject: Portraits; Harlow
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
Date: 1958
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2015.4.8
Extent: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print

Ruth Calder 1925–2011

Postmistress with Bicycle, 1958

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Extent: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015

Identifier: 2015.4.8

Calder met Harlow's postmistress on the Grange road and asked her to stand still for one picture. She stood still for four.

Rights & reuse

Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Cite this

Ruth Calder. “Postmistress with Bicycle.” 1958. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/236 (accessed October 27, 2026).

Collection

Photographs