- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Sinclair, Clayton, American
- Sinclair, Hazel, American
- Subject of
- Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
- Date
- mid 20th century
- Medium
- cotton (fiber) on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 1 5/8 × 1 15/16 × 2 1/16 in. (4.2 × 5 × 5.2 cm)
- Description
- A partially used spool of white string from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The string is wrapped around a plain corrugated cardboard spool. The spool caps are plain cardboard. The spool has a wide spool pin hole on one side and small spool pin hole on the other.
- Place collected
- Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
- Classification
- Textiles and Quilts
- Topic
- Black Enterprise
- Black interiors
- Business
- Recreation
- Segregation
- Travel
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
- Object number
- 2011.12.4.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




