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Clothing label for Mae Reeves from Mae's Millinery Shop
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Clothing label for Mae Reeves from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1941-1994

silk and ink
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A clothing label from Mae's Millinery Shop. It is made from cream silk with machine embroidery of silk thread in burgundy and gold that reads "Made Especially / FOR YOU BY". Beneath the embroidery the name "Mae Reeves" is stamped in red ink. The text is surrounded by a scalloped gold border.

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