Beaded Bag
name: label: maker
content: McGarvey, Sarah Hall
notes: label: Description
content: This beaded purse has each bead sewn on individually. Beaded bags and knitted bags were fashionable in the 1800s. It was made by Sarah Hall McGarvey who was born September 22, 1823, in Strafford, NH to Elisha and Betsy Critchett Hall. She married James McGarvey (1814-1866) about 1842 in Derry, NH and they had seven children – Charles Henry, Sarah Abby, Jane, James, Jessie, Mary, and William. She died December 27, 1904 in Roxbury, MA.
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: Gift of Mrs. Ruth Fisher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0105.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0105.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaded bag
label: Object Name
content: reticule
label: Object Name
content: reticule, beaded bag
label: Object Type
content: beadwork
label: Other Terms
content: beaded bag; reticule; C.1835-1845
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beads (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton ground (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bead embroidered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 6 in; 15.24 cm x 15.24 cm