Square form with drawstring opening at top; comprised of printed cotton fragments stitched into squares in "patches"; lined with off-white plain weave linen; textiles are copperplate printed.
bags (generic containers)
cotton (textile)
patchwork
printing (process)
Bag
Bag
Written on a jelly jar label and pinned: ""Bag from Conn."" (NFL handwriting)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1433
Connecticut (United States)
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