Brush and comb case: "Aeroplanes guarding Paris"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914-1918
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular brush and comb case with scene of "Aeroplanes Guarding Paris" embroidered on front. Four gold airplanes fly over a gray and black Paris skyline. Red and blue border. Price tag is pinned to the inside flap and reads: "$1.50 / Brush & / comb case / "Aeroplanes / guarding / Paris"." Made by French peasant women in French Lorraine during World War I. Sold in America through the Society for Employment of Women in France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: French WWI Stitchery
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift in honor of Elizabeth Dayton Johnson Napier (Mrs. George Ferry Napier) and Helen Napier Mayers (Mrs. D. Alexander Mayers)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0086.20
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0086.20
label: accession number
content: 2011.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, linen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, folded: 4 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, open: 9 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 23.495 cm x 24.765 cm