Memorial card for Robert Riethmiller from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A memorial card for Robert Riethmiller from Mae's Millinery Shop. The front of the card features a color print of the Virgin Mary. The back of the card is printed with the Lord's Prayer below the text "In Memory of / ROBERT RIETHMILLER / Died April 5, 1968".

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968-1994
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
• Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
• Type: commemoratives
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 4 x 2 3/8 in. (10.2 x 6 cm)
• Place collected: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Catholicism
• Topic: Millinery
• Topic: Prayer
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2010.6.19
• 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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