- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Reeves, Mae, American, 1912 - 2016
- Subject of
- Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
- Date
- 1941-1994
- Medium
- plastic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 1/4 in. (8.9 x 4.4 x 0.6 cm)
- Description
- A brown plastic hair comb with a faux tortoise shell finish from Mae's Millinery Shop. The slightly curved comb has fifteen (15) closed forked teeth, with a sixteenth missing from one end.
- Place collected
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Mae's Millinery Shop Collection
- Classification
- Accessories and Personal Effects
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Mae Reeves and her children, Donna Limerick and William Mincey, Jr.
- Object number
- 2010.6.54.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




