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Handkerchief

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1820-1860

GUSN

GUSN-11565

Description

Of square form, woven in blue, off white and butternut linen. It has a blue and butternut check and off white cross-bar pattern within a wide border of like colors.

Details

Descriptive Terms

handkerchiefs
accessories
linen (material)
weaving
Handkerchief
Handkerchief

Inscription

Embroidered on the corner with an off white thread in cross-stitch is: JL .

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

19 x 19 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1763

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