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Fifteen assorted herb labels mounted on a brown paper backed with cardboard. Various colors, typefaces and herb types all wrapped in a clear plastic taped on the reverse. The sizes range: for height: 17"(for the mounting) 1 1/2 - 2 7/8 and width: 14"(for the mounting) 2 1/4 - 4 1/4
labels (identifying artifacts)
gluing
ink
mounting
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
Shaker (Christian sect)
Unidentified Paper
Ink
Glued
Mounted
Transfer Printed
Shaker
LABELS
Printed on the face, each label is identified as from the Shaker Colony by the inscription: Prepared in the United Society/New-Lebanon, N.Y.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1510
New York state (United States)
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