Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2001.27.030
Accession#:
2001.27
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Towel, Dish
Title:
White Cotton Dish Towel with Cross—Stitch Decoration
Artist — Creator:
Parke, Vera L.
Date:
1930
Description:
White cotton dish towel with embroidered design. Commercially made towel with hemmed edges. Embroidery is cross and straight stitch in green, blue, red, black and yellow of a girl holding fork and spoon.
Notes:
Hand work done by Vera L. Parke in the late 1930's, probably around the time of her 1937 arrival in Juneau as a newly—wed. Towel used by Parke family (late 1930's and 1940's). Recovered in the family home from a stack of utility towels.
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White Cotton Dish Towel with C
White Cotton Dish Towel with C