Elizabeth Blanchard Greene's embroidered shopping bag, 1870s
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
name: label: maker
content: Damon, Elizabeth Orne Blancard
notes: label: Description
content: Elizabeth Blanchard Greene's embroidered utility bag, 1870s. A utility type shopping bag of grey wool suede-cloth in twill pile weave, embroidered in multi-color wools in petit point with a church, flower and shrub design on one side and a bird in bower design on the other. The top half is of unadorned silk taffeta with a drawstring and folds down inside the wool lower half. Gray braided cord trim and multi-colored twisted cord handles.Made by Mrs. James D. Greene (aunt of the donor) Newton Center, MA, in the 1870's. Mrs. James D. Greene is Elizabeth Orne Blanchard Damon, born May 1840 to William and Caroline Blanchard in Boston, MA. She married October 7, 1879, James D. Green in Lancaster, MA. Her first husband was Edwards Adams Damon, whom she married December 20, 1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newton, Newton Center
topic: label: web subject
content: Needlework
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Julia M. Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09921.000
label: catalog number
content: T09921.000
label: accession number
content: 177011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Canvas Work
label: Object Name
content: shopping bag, canvas work
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk, wool, (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery, petit point (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 14 in; 25.4 cm x 35.56 cm