Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.14
- Date:
- 1775-1780
- Description:
- Fragment of brown woven fabric sewn to wide black silk band. Brown fabric is rectangular, 0.8" x 1.9". Fibers include metallic thread. Black band is 2.2" wide x ~7" long. Ends of band are wrapped around a piece of cardboard and sewn to back of board. Cardboard inscribed in ink, "A piece of the belt worn by / General Putnam in the war / of the Revolution / Presented by Mrs. Geo. Slater / Montreal Canada".
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-0.8 L-1.9 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Putnam, Israel (1718-1790)
- Subjects:
- Souvenirs, Belts (Clothing), American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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