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Sign from Shearer Cottage

20th century

Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, 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.

A wooden sign from Shearer Cottage on Martha's Vineyard. White-painted wood letters are glued onto a wood board. The top row of letters spells "SHEARER" and the bottom row of letters spells "COTTAGE". Some of the letters have mirror tiles glued all along their edges. Two (2) eyehole screws are screwed into the top of the sign at the upper-left and upper-right corners.

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Catalog reference: 2013.209.1

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