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Paper flier with dress and gingham fabrics [-see reverse for measurements of fragments and description] Fabric Samples: "KALBURNIE" - blue and white checked "GLENKIRK" - orange and white checked
sample books
cotton (textile)
checker pattern
paper (fiber product)
Sample, Sales
Book, Sample
Book, Sample
Printed on letterhead: p.1 ""LANCASTER MILLS/ 24 FEDERAL STREET/ BOTSON/ APRIL 29, 1927/ SHIRLY EUSTIS HOUSE ASSN..."" [Letter about stockholder report]; p.2 ""GINGHAM CONSTRUCTIONS/ STARTING IN 1849, LANCASTER MILLS WAS THE FIRST TO USE POWER LOOMS TO MAKE GINGHAMS, HALVING THE/ COST OF THE OLD-WORLD HAND PRODUCT...""
Used At Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury, Mass.),
Lancaster Mills (Maker)
Scott, Albert L. (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
11 x 8 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Accession
1992.90.2
Massachusetts (United States)
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