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Perfume bottle and lid from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A clear glass perfume bottle (a) and gold colored metal lid (b). The bottle is bulbous in shape, made from glass molded in a design of hash marks. The top of the bottle has a push spray mechanism protruding from a gold colored metal top. The lid of the bottle is an elongated cylinder shape, with the initials JL in relief on the top of the lid.

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Catalog reference: 2010.6.109ab

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