Beadwork Bag
name: label: maker
content: Todd, Clara Augusta Harvey
notes: label: Description
content: A knitted beadwork purse, with a stylized flower repeat design, front and back. There are small flower bands at the bottom. It has a beaded twisted looped fringe at the bottom. Frame and fastener of German silver, with gold finish chain attached. Lined with blue silk, with a pocket. Beaded bags and knitted bags were fashionable in the 1800s. It was made by Clara Augusta Harvey Todd who was born to Charles and Augusta Farnsworth Harvey on June 27, 1869 in Methuen, MA. She married Burton D Todd and had a daughter Arvilla.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Arvilla D. Merrill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T15177
label: catalog number
content: T15177.000
label: accession number
content: 290955
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beadwork
label: Object Type
content: beadwork
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 13.97 cm