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Museum object · Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor

Standing desk 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 wooden standing desk used as a point of sale at Mae's Millinery Shop. The desk has a flat front and two sides that taper slightly outward toward the back side. There is one wooden shelf on the upper half of the back side of the desk, with one wooden drawer at the center below the shelf.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2010.6.188

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