- 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
- leather, silk knit, and plastic buttons
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a): 21 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 3/8 in. (54.3 x 14 x 1 cm)
- H x W x D (b): 21 1/2 x 5 x 3/8 in. (54.6 x 12.7 x 1 cm)
- Description
- Pair of elbow length cream leather gloves lined in cream silk knit. The gloves are seamed down the exterior side and along the fingers. There is an opening at each wrist that closes with three (3) small pearl colored plastic buttons, none of which are currently attached to the gloves. There is a label sewn to the interior seam of the left glove that reads "Lining 100% Silk" in dark blue embroidery.
- Place collected
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Mae's Millinery Shop Collection
- Classification
- Clothing - Fashion and Historical
- Type
- gloves
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donna Limerick
- Object number
- 2016.48.48.8ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




