S & S Hat Company, Inc. Fall/Winter 2003 catalog from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

S & S Hat Company, Inc. Fall/Winter 2003 flier from Mae's Millinery Shop. Each page features several color thumbnails of hats on a mannequin head organized into different sets. There are five (5) sheets stapled at the upper left corner, with the first page dull grey with black text, and the remaining pages white glossy with color images and black text.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2003
• Printed by: S & S Hat Company, Inc., American, founded 1923
• Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
• Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper, metal
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 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: 2010.6.37
• 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

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © S & S Hat Company, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.