Woman's Fur Scarf

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Fur Scarf

Entry/Object ID

CW 6288

Description

Scarf. Woman's fur scarf; black fur (seal?) lined with dark red silk; black cord; black cord and celluloid rings form a snap holder. Circa 1920. No condition given. Scarf was found in a box marked: "From Dr. and Mrs. H. Curtis Wood, Oct. 9, 1967." Transcribed from Original Accession Record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

unknown

Material

Animal pelt (seal?); silk, celluloid ring

Provenance

Notes

"The Wood family tree...has included altogether fourteen respected men of medicine since the eighteenth century. The handing on of the name Horatio Curtis Wood has reached a sort of impasse in various branches; there now being a Dr. Horatio C. Wood Jr. (Pennsylvania '97), a Dr. Horatio C. Wood IV (Haverford '50) and a Mr. Curtis Wood (Yale '54)." (Source: The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy, page 109, By Nathaniel Burt)