Museum object · Clothing - Fashion and Historical
Pair of black gloves with embroidered decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop
1941-1994
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 pair of black synthetic knit gloves reaching to the mid-forearm. A back machine-embroidered wreath is sewn at the back of the hand below the middle finger on each glove, as are two (2) of the same wreaths each on the outer arm of each glove near the opening.
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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: 2010.6.170ab
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