Stocking
- Object Name:
- Stocking
- Object ID:
- 1994.057.11 a-b
- Place of Origin:
- Hebron NH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Stockings. Pair of women's black silk stockings with light green embroidered diamonds and other small designs. Cream-colored thread at toe and heel. Seam along back of leg and 1.5" thicker woven band around top. Repairs at toe, heel and bottom of foot. (a) long repaired run near top and unrepaired holes in band. (b) small repaired run near band at top.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- L-23 inches
- Provenance:
- All of the clothing in this accession (1994.57.1-.16) comes from the donor's family's farm in Hebron, NH. She believes that this material was worn by her grandmother and her grand aunts. Her grandmother was Elizabeth Graves Walker Keyes (1860-1943). The clothing came out of an attic with no light at the Hebron farm.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Eva Geraghty
- People:
- Keyes, Elizabeth G. (1860-1943)
- Subjects:
- Stockings
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