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Needle Cases

Artist Mary Wright Alsop 1740 - 1829
Date1800 - 1815
Terms
  • Needle Cases
  • Silk Fiber
  • Oil Cloth
  • Middletown
Dimensions5.08 × 5.08 cm (2 × 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Everett Parker (1990)
Object number1990.6
DescriptionSilk, oil cloth. A small folding case, polychrome knit silk over paper or oil cloth, lined with woven silk and with three flannel flaps sewn in, their edges bound with silk thread. Contains three needles.
Collections
  • Historic Clothing
Object number: 1990.5
Mary Wright Alsop
1800 - 1815
Purses
Object number: 1990.4
Mary Wright Alsop
1813
needle case
Object number: PER1133.1
Object number: TH33F
Walton Ricketson
ca. 1880
Sewing Boxes
Object number: Per1149.1a
1800s