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Rectangular red wool shawl with fringe. The wool has a tiny herringbone pattern. The shawl has fringe at both ends and a tiny gold herringbone stitch along the edges. The shawl was wrapped in "The Boston Herald February 19, 1925" labeled "little old red shawl".
shawls
wool (textile)
Shawl
"Little old red shawl" (handwritten on The Boston Herald)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P898
Unknown
64 3/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1318
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