Donna Limerick painted sign from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History
Donna Limerick painted sign from Mae's Millinery Shop: Date: 1941-1994. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016.
The object in the museum catalogue
A rectangular painted sign reading [Donna Limmerick / Ms. Reeves]. The text is painted in black letters and the upper PL and lower PR corners have blue and red concentric circles in paint. There are red and black ballpoint ink markings on the front and the surface is dirty overall.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1941-1994
- Created by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
- Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
- Type: shop signs
- Medium: paint on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 x 11 in. (10.2 x 27.9 cm)
- Place collected: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Advertising
- Topic: Black Enterprise
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Millinery
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2010.6.6
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Mae Reeves and her children, Donna Limerick and William Mincey, Jr.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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