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1850-1900
GUSN-11229
Rectangular linen dish or hand towel; woven with blue and natural white grid check pattern with bolder stripes for the border; two hemmed and two selvage edges; embroidered with small initials at the top left.
dish towels
embroidering
hand weaving
linen (material)
checker pattern
Linen
Woven
Embroidered
Checked
TOWEL, DISH
The initials 'AG.'
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
24 x 21.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.400
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