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Museum object · Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Pair of small taupe gloves with embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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

Pair of small taupe gloves with beaded and embroidered floral design at edges of wrists. The cotton knit gloves are seemed down the middle of the hand with a small slit at the wrist above the seem. The edges of the fingers are seemed with the seems left raw. The gloves are not lined.

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Catalog reference: 2016.48.48.2ab

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