Bag, Laundry
- Object Name:
- Bag, Laundry
- Object ID:
- 1968.042.14
- Date:
- 1880-1915
- Description:
- Laundry Bag. Constructed of white cotton woven with doubled warps. Drawstring top with a white cotton cord. Decorated on the front with a redwork embroidery design of a goat eating laundry hanging on the line. A small house appears in the background and a tin can is near the goat's feet. Design is titled, "WASHING TAKEN IN." The embroidery is done in red cotton outline stitching. The bag is machine-stitched.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-15 L-17.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of a collection of objects that belonged to the Peirce family of Rindge, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Gladys Woods Randall
- People:
- Peirce, Randall, Gladys L. (1890-1974)
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