- On View
- Power of Place Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Power of Place
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Reeves, Mae, American, 1912 - 2016
- Subject of
- Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
- Date
- 1941-1994
- Medium
- steel and paper with masking tape
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 × 1 in. (5.1 × 2.5 cm)
- Description
- A rectangular black piece of paper with two folded ridges, reinforced on the back with masking tape from Mae's Millinery Shop. Four (4) metal sewing needles are pierced through the ridges, with a fifth pinhole being empty.
- Place collected
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Mae's Millinery Shop Collection
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Type
- needles
- 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
- 2010.6.55.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




