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White cotton with woven vertical stripe. Pointed collar with buttonhole at left and right sides. Five small white buttons down center front. Long sleeves with small white buttons at cuffs and sleeve plackets. Tuck in each sleeve at elbow.
shirts
cotton (textile)
stitching
Shirt
Shirt
1) Woven label inside collar (blue letters on white silk): ""Hewias & Hollis/Inc./Boston."" 2) Woven label inside collar (red letters on white silk): ""H. C."" - placed directly below label #1. 3) Black ink stamp on back of collar: ""NO 9 14 2(2 raised up) 5706"" 4) Black ink stamp lower left shirt tail: ""HH-2/WMXXOOW-14/14 2(2raised up) 34/5706""
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.7208
Massachusetts (United States)
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