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handkerchief collection (x4)

human history
  • Other Name

    embroidered handkerchiefs (descriptive name)

  • Description

    Collection of white voile embroidered handkerchiefs (x4), part of a collection of handkerchiefs collected by Glenys Gargan in the 1950s.

    white voile cloth with machine embroidery coloured image in one of the corners of each of the hankies

    one has three green stems with small pink flowers, one has a dragon fly, one has three pink daisies, one has a red central flower with three smaller yellow flowers

  • Associated Place

    Auckland/New Zealand

  • Accession Number
    1999.107.67
  • Accession Date
    27 Aug 1999
  • Department

    History

    Social History

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