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Handkerchief

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1850-1890

GUSN

GUSN-11554

Description

Of almost square form, printed on a red ground with a field of diamonds with a floral device in cream, black and red. All this with a leaf, flower, dot and geometric patterned band bordered in cream, red and black. It has a machine sewn hem.

Details

Descriptive Terms

handkerchiefs
accessories
cotton (textile)
printing (process)
Handkerchief
Handkerchief

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

22 x 23 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1752

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