Huswif
date: label: date made
content: 1842
name: label: maker
content: Brown, Mary Frederick
notes: label: Description
content: A pink leather huswif (housewife) made by Mary Frederick Brown, age 12, of Hillsborough, Virginia, dated Jan 20, 1842. A huswif was a case containing sewing supplies; some rolled up and some folded. During the Civil War women often made them for loved ones serving in the armed forces so they could sew on buttons and mend their uniforms. Mary was born about 1830 and is probably the daughter of Asa and Jane Reaner Brown. Her huswif descended in the family of her brother Charles J. Brown.
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 Elva McKinney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11165
label: catalog number
content: T11165.000
label: accession number
content: 205091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sewing kit