Sujet

Pair of light cream gloves with openwork design from Mae's Millinery Shop, 1941-1994. Creator: Van Raalte.

Légende

Pair of light cream gloves with open cutwork lattice design on back of hands. The cotton knit gloves are seamed at the exterior side of the palm and along the fingers, with the seams left raw. There is a deep slit in the wrist at the center palm. The left (a) glove has a manufacturer's label sewn into the seam that reads "Van Raalte" in blue embroidered text. The right (b) glove has printed text in the interior palm that reads "ALL COTTON / EXCLUSIVE / OF ORNAMENTATION / SEWN IN PHILIPPINES". 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_396

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,6Mo (1,9Mo) / 41,3cm x 36,2cm / 4877 x 4274 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black fashion shopping shop shops country museum color dress location century fabric cotton African American African-American 1940s embroidery afro-american Forties United States of America Nineties Colour 20th century heritage American America USA 1990s decade openwork object united states Reeves CUTWORK open-work cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art eyelet embroidery National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art Mae's Millinery Shop Mae Reeves Mae gloves Van Raalte Raalte Van