Museum object · Textiles and Quilts
Spool of white string from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
mid 20th century
Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
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 partially used spool of white string from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The string is wrapped around a plain corrugated cardboard spool. The spool caps are plain cardboard. The spool has a wide spool pin hole on one side and small spool pin hole on the other.
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗
Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2011.12.4.3
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