White mailing envelope from Aldo Hat Corporation from Mae's Millinery Shop: Museum Object and Cultural History
White mailing envelope from Aldo Hat Corporation from Mae's Millinery Shop: Date: 2001. Created by: Aldo Hat Corporation, American. Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016.
The object in the museum catalogue
Aldo Hat Corporation envelope found in cash box 2010.6.33.1 from Mae's Millinery Shop. It is a large white envelope with a self-adhesive addressee label. There are a number of papers inside but the envelope has not been opened.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2001
- Created by: Aldo Hat Corporation, American
- Owned by: Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
- Subject of: Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
- Type: envelopes
- Medium: ink on paper, adhesive
- Dimensions: H x W: 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 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: 2010.6.33.15
- 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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