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HATBOX

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1900-1910

GUSN

GUSN-12968

Description

White paper; square; crackled finish; top has gold (dirty) border. A=Box; B=Top.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hatboxes
accessories
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
HATBOX

Inscription

Labels on Box top: 1) ""From...Caroline/Millinery/486 Boylston St.,/ Boston/In Block of Brunswick Hotel/Telephone 1344:7./For Mrs. Ogden Codman/Lincoln/Mass."" 2) Label is incomplete: ""NATIONA_/BOSTON, MASS. /BILLED TO /EXPRESS C_""

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

1969.6158A&B

Maker

Caroline Millinery (Maker)

Location of Origin

Boston, MA, USA

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.6158AB

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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