Stockings (Socks)

Object/Artifact

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Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center

Name/Title

Stockings (Socks)

Entry/Object ID

0046.024

Description

"My father told of how his mother would sit by the fireplace and knit with her eyes shut, maybe sleeping. -- My grandmother Thomas remembered that during the Civil War her mother had knit the stockings for the next year and had them hanging on a rack upstairs in their hom. The soldiers came through the house and took all the stockings and socks." pair of knitted women's stockings (socks)

Use

Naomi's grandparents, this pair may have come from Sarah Hoover

Collection

West Collection

Cataloged By

SRJ

Acquisition

Accession

0046

Source or Donor

Naomi Miller West family

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

CLOTHING--FOOTWEAR

Category

03--PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

Dimensions

Height

15 in

Width

9 in

Dimension Notes

15", 9" foot

Condition

Notes

one sock has hole, the other sock darned

General Notes

Note Type

Date Cataloged

Note

10/30/2008

Note Type

Information Provided By

Note

card attached to item

Created By

SRJ

Create Date

January 12, 2009

Updated By

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Update Date

January 7, 2022