Hanging, Bed
- Object Name:
- Hanging, Bed
- Object ID:
- 1999.040.121.6
- Date:
- 1880-1920
- Description:
- Bed hanging. Cream color cotton fabric, with applied fringe. Polished cotton 2" sleeve along upper edge.11.25" high (including fringe), 41.25" long.Bed hanging. Machine manufactured plain weave cotton muslin. Two panels 31" and 49" widths joined finished with French seams. 2.5" white polished cotton channel machine stitched to back. 3.5" tasseled macramé passementirie in off white machine stitched. Finished with a seam on each end. Part of the bedroom furnishing used by Annalee Davis as a girl, when she lived with her grandparents on Centre Street in Concord, NH, mid-1920s to 1930s; Annalee reminisced her doll-making business began in Concord bedroom, as she invited friends over to help her make dolls.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-80 L-11 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the bedroom furnishing used by Annalee Davis as a girl, when she lived with her grandparents on Centre Street in Concord, NH, mid-1920s to 1930s; Annalee and her mother and sisters moved in with her mother's parents (Ladd), after the death of Annalee's father. Annalee reminisced that her doll-making business began in that Concord bedroom, as she invited friend over to help her make dolls.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Annalee Davis Thorndike
- Subjects:
- Dolls, Textiles, Bed curtain, Cotton, Tassels, Passementirie, Muslin
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