textilesCollection_women_ _052a

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title: Homemade Hatbox

subject: Hatboxes

subject: Women

description: Color photographs of a handmade round hatbox. It is made of newsprint, and covered in wallpaper - a brown floral print with yellow highlights. It has a removable lid and string tie. The interior newspaper is the Baptist Register, published in Concord NH, dated 1839. When it was found, it contained a brown silk hat, also part of this collection.

source: Hatbox, Box 39, Textile Collection, MS0000.001, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives, Colby-Sawyer College

publisher: Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives

date: circa 1839

rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives.

format: image/jpeg

type: Image

identifier: textilesCollection_women_ _052a

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