"Sorry We're Closed" sign from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A printed sign reading [Sorry WE'RE CLOSED] from Mae's Millinery Shop. The rectangular sign has a white border surrounding a black field. The words [Sorry] and [We're] are in white ink, [Closed] is in orange. At the bottom left corner in the white border [COLE] is printed in black ink.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1941-1994
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
• Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
• Type: signs
• Medium: ink 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: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Millinery
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2010.6.8
• 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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