Towel
- Object Name:
- Towel
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.070
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Towels. Machine woven white linen, with red floral border. With note: "Red bordered / linen towels have / been in family / over 90 years / ECS-".
- Material:
- Textile
Linen - Dimensions:
- W-25.4 L-37.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown. The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- Subjects:
- Linen, Linen industry, Towels
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