Object Details
- Description
- Rectangular brush and comb case with scene of "Aeroplanes Guarding Paris" embroidered on front. Four gold airplanes fly over a gray and black Paris skyline. Red and blue border. Price tag is pinned to the inside flap and reads: "$1.50 / Brush & / comb case / "Aeroplanes / guarding / Paris"." Made by French peasant women in French Lorraine during World War I. Sold in America through the Society for Employment of Women in France.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift in honor of Elizabeth Dayton Johnson Napier (Mrs. George Ferry Napier) and Helen Napier Mayers (Mrs. D. Alexander Mayers)
- ca 1914-1918
- ID Number
- 2011.0086.20
- catalog number
- 2011.0086.20
- accession number
- 2011.0086
- Object Name
- case, linen
- Physical Description
- linen (overall material)
- thread (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall, folded: 4 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 24.13 cm
- overall, open: 9 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 23.495 cm x 24.765 cm
- place made
- France
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
- Military
- French WWI Stitchery
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_1591223
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-9a6e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
