Pair of small taupe gloves with embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/8af0585d17f8bf0a8092c21d60feebb0

Title

Pair of small taupe gloves with embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop

Creator

Unidentified
Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016
Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994

Date

1941-1994

Description

Pair of small taupe gloves with beaded and embroidered floral design at edges of wrists. The cotton knit gloves are seemed down the middle of the hand with a small slit at the wrist above the seem. The edges of the fingers are seemed with the seems left raw. The gloves are not lined.

Subject

Women
Black Enterprise
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Business
Mae's Millinery Shop
Reeves, Mae
African Americans
African American

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAAHC-15BC85B2C96C2_5001

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=nmaahc_2016.48.48.2ab&repo=DPLA

Subject

Women
Black Enterprise
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Business
Mae's Millinery Shop
Reeves, Mae
African Americans
African American

Citation

Unidentified, Mae Reeves, American, 1912 - 2016, and Mae's Millinery Shop, American, 1941 - 1994, “Pair of small taupe gloves with embroidery from Mae's Millinery Shop,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 11, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/27986.

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