textilesCollection_women_ _004a

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title: "Housewife" Pouch

subject: Notions (Merchandise)

subject: Pouches (Containers)

description: Color photographs of a small handmade fold-over pouch made of burlap with an inside divider (and original needle). The outside is embroidered in green with salmon, yellow and tan flowers. It is bound in cranberry burlap, probably hand-dyed. Original tags on the item read "housewife", "1790", and "Burpee Homestead."

source: Housewife Pouch, Box 49, Textile Collection, MS0000.001, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives, Colby-Sawyer College

publisher: Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives

date: circa 1790

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

format: image/jpeg

type: Image

identifier: textilesCollection_women_ _004a

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