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Hatbox

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1868-1899

GUSN

GUSN-4482

Description

Coal-bucket shaped box covered with blue paper.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hatboxes
accessories
cardboard
paper (fiber product)
Cardboard
Unidentified Paper
HATBOX

Inscription

Vendor's label inside, ""M.B. Elliott/77 Court (Corner Brattle) St./Boston.""

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Elliott, M. B. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Boston, MA, USA; Paris, France

Dimensions

11 x 14 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.716.1

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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