In mid-February 1937, various Swedish groups sponsored a Swedish Folk Art Exhibit at Seattle's Frederick and Nelson department store. Exhibits included handicrafts, utensils, furniture and weaving and spinning demonstrations. During the exhibit, Mrs. Ingeborg Soderlund demonstrated how to spin thread on an early 19th century wheel brought to Seattle from Gamtland in northern Sweden.

This photo, taken in Seattle in February 1937, shows Ingeborg Soderlund spinning thread on an antique spinning wheel. Both her wheel and her clothing came from Gamtland in northern Sweden.

Written on negative: Mrs. Ingeborg Soderlund
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 23, 1937.