Needle case
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small folding needle case with cardboard covers; inside are four leaves of taffeta lined with wool for inserting needles. The front cover is painted with a garden scene with three young ladies and two gentlemen in dress of about 1820. On the back cover, a group of young ladies near a ruin give money to a beggar woman. The inside leaves are printed with scenes from a medieval tale.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the estate of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-180-45
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Needle case
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Label: painted cardboard covers, silk leaves lined with wool
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)