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Laundry Basket

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Collection Type

  • Household accessories

Date

1910-1935

GUSN

GUSN-11435

Description

An oval form with a wide rim over straight tapering sides and flared conforming foot.

Details

Descriptive Terms

laundry baskets
wicker
weaving
Wicker
Woven
BASKET, LAUNDRY

Inscription

In blue pencil, on a hanging paper tag on the rim, is: B.K. LITTLE/SPRING STREET/ESSEX, MASS.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

12.5 x 22 x 28 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.385

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