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1840-1870
GUSN-11549
Of narrow rectangular form of tightly woven off white linen. It has a deep hem on all four sides and is machine sewn.
scarves (furniture coverings)
linen (material)
weaving
Linen
Woven
SCARF, BUREAU
In pencil on a note on the textile reads: Hand woven/scraps from/Peggy Little/Newburyport. [Peggy Little Harford]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Harford, Margaret Peggy Little (Maker)
Newburyport & Brookline, MA, USA
8.25 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1747
Massachusetts (United States)
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