02860cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000380012624500190016426400510018330000470023433600260028133700260030733800360033350000480036950000310041750501880044850801710063652014370080753400590224465300280230365300370233185600680236885600430243699900190247978464UtSlPG20260610134823.0mcr n260607r20261923utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a23026246  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aWinslow, Thyra Samter,d1893-196110aPicture frames 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aReprinted in 1945 with title: Window panes.  aRelease date is 2026-04-160 aLittle Emma -- Grandma -- Mamie Carpenter -- A cycle of Manhattan -- Amy's story -- City folks -- Indian summer -- A love affair -- Birthday -- Corinna and her man -- The end of Anna.  aBob Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"Picture frames" by Thyra Samter Winslow is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The pieces sketch sharp, witty portraits of American women navigating love, work, class, and family across Midwestern towns and big-city settings. Expect intimate, character-driven vignettes that probe ambition, respectability, and the stories people tell about themselves.

The opening of the collection presents three portraits. In Little Emma, an Iowa girl heads to Chicago chasing the myth of the rich, world-weary benefactor, reinvents herself (with a friend’s guidance) as a “simple country” type, and lands a job where the older partner courts her with culture and, to her surprise, straightforward marriage. In Grandma, a seventy-three-year-old rotates among her grown children—overworked at one house, needled at another, gently ignored at a third—but on the train transforms herself into a gracious, beloved matriarch by spinning warm, idealized versions of her family to fellow travelers, a glow that fades when a chauffeur—not family—meets her in New York. Mamie Carpenter shifts to a Missouri town, where a pretty candy clerk from the wrong street resents the local “society” set and coolly sets her sights on wealthy Marlin Embury, engineering chance meetings and a modest persona that intrigues him, even as she avoids letting him see her home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923  aShort stories, American  aAmerican fiction -- 20th century4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063975869&seq=740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78464  c119183d119183