- On View
- Power of Place Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Power of Place
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Reeves, Mae, American, 1912 - 2016
- Subject of
- Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994
- Date
- 1941-1994
- Medium
- silk and ink
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7/8 x 2 3/16 in. (2.2 x 5.6 cm)
- Description
- 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.
- Place collected
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Mae's Millinery Shop Collection
- Classification
- Textiles and Quilts
- 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
- 2010.6.66.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




