Sujet

Eyeglasses from Mae's Millinery Shop, 1941-1994. Creator: Sherman Optical USA.

Légende

A pair of bifocal glasses with black plastic frames. The lenses are slightly ovular with a smooth bottom edge and a bi-cornered top edge. Text is engraved in silver lettering onto the inside of the proper left temple that reads: "U.S.A. Sherman." Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_148

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (1,1Mo) / 37,6cm x 34,9cm / 4441 x 4127 (300dpi)

Mots clés

glasses people black fashion shopping shop shops country spectacles museum color dress location century African American African-American 1940s afro-american Forties United States of America Nineties Colour 20th century heritage American America USA 1990s bifocal lens decade object united states Reeves cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art Mae's Millinery Shop Mae Reeves Mae eyeglasses Sherman Optical USA