Torn sales book cover from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History
Torn sales book cover 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 torn printed cover of a sales book from Mae's Millinery Shop. The cover is printed with red and blue ink as well as written on with ink. It is torn at the top, across the word Salesbook.
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: ephemera
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 1/4 x 3 3/16 in. (10.8 x 8.1 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: 2010.6.10
- 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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