Pencil and paper business records from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

One (1) used pencil and twenty-three (23) paper receipts and notes from Mae's Millinery Shop. The receipts are dated as early as 1968 and as late as 1997. The pencil (.1) is wood painted yellow with a worn down eraser.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1941-1994
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Written by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
• Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
• Type: pencils
• Type: receipts
• Medium: .1: wood, graphite, paint, metal, and rubber;
• Medium: .2-.24: ink and graphite on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D (.1): 1/4 × 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (0.6 × 0.6 × 7.9 cm)
• Place collected: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Millinery
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2010.6.14.1-.24
• 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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