Name/Title
HairpinsEntry/Object ID
CW 722Description
Hairpins. Box containing a total of 34 hairpins of various shapes, materials and sizes; examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth century hairpins of steel; bone, and celluloid. Written on box: "Hairpins - example of late 19th and early 20th cent. steel, bone, & rubber hairpins." Good condition. Circa 1900.
Inventory of hairpins:
16 celluloid with straight shafts
3 celluloid with wavy shafts;
1 large celluloid with straight shaft
2 whale bone - black
7 small wire hairpins
5 large wire hairpins
Transcribed from original accession record.Collection
Germantown Historical Society Objects