Table top sign for Fall Fashion Favorites from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History
Table top sign for Fall Fashion Favorites 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 cardboard table top sign from Mae's Millinery Shop. The front is covered in dark green paint with red glittery text reading "Fall / Fashion / Favorites" in cursive at an angle in the center. At the upper left and bottom right facing corners are red glitter fence posts with leafy clusters. The back of the sign has part of a cardboard stand for setting on a table, with the arm missing.
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: signs
- Medium: paint and glitter on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 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: 2010.6.41
- 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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