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.
handkerchiefs
accessories
cotton (textile)
printing (process)
Handkerchief
Handkerchief
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
22 x 23 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1752
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