Tobacco Pouch

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Tobacco Pouch

Entry/Object ID

CW 5173

Description

Man's tobacco pouch. Light brown leather with medium brown silk top, trim and drawstring. Gray and brown tassel. Gray silk lining. Painted cigar, pipe, and cigarette.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1898

Provenance

Notes

Used by Frank Patterson Hill. Mr. Hill was the son of Joseph Hill and was born in 1862 on his father's farm "Cresheim" very near McCallum St. Bridge overlooking the Wissahickon Vallet, where his father owned blanket mills during and before the Civil War. Donor: Helen Thomson Wyncote.