Name/Title
PurseEntry/Object ID
CW 1623Description
Purse. Girl's off-white satin drawstring bag; multicolored crewel embroidery of fruit; bottom cardboard covered with satin with letter embroidery: "Confident in Love" embroidered on side of bottom: "in Friendship sincere." Included with CW 1622 with note: "things of my childhood put away and marked by mother."
Transcribed from original accession record.Collection
Germantown Historical Society ObjectsMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Germantown, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDimensions
Width
13-1/8 inDepth
1-3/4 inLength
12 inProvenance
Notes
Owner: Eleanor S. Wistar
Eleanor S. Wistar was the author of: "The history of the Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances," and one-time Secretary of the Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances.
Note included with CW 1622: "things of my childhood put away and marked by mother."
