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Lace from the collection of Richard C. Greenleaf

Summary

Collection ID:
SIL-CH.XXXX-0004
Creators:
Hague, Marian
Greenleaf, Richard Cranch, 1887-1961
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Library.
Dates:
1940
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Photographic album
57 photographic prints mounted on blank leaves of paper
b&w
29 cm.
Repository:
Images of 16th-early 19th century European hand-made lace and tassels from the collection of Richard C. Greenleaf. The Greenleaf collection of lace was later given as a bequest to the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration.

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General note

General note
Typescript title leaf.
General note
The prints are accompanied by brief hand-written or typescript captions identifying the variety of lace shown, the place and approximate date of creation of the lace, and the source where the lace was found. Many of the prints are also annotated with some sort of accession number.
General note
Handwritten annotations (by Greenleaf?) appear on the versos of many of the prints, although the annotations are generally covered over with paper and are inaccessible. Some prints have typed or handwritten references on accompanying blank guard-sheets. Some annotations are attributed to Marian Hague, another lace collector.
General note
Most of the photographic prints measure approximately 23 x 18 cm.


Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Tassels -- Pictorial works Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lace and lace making -- Private collections -- Catalogs Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lace and lace making -- Catalogs Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lace and lace making -- Pictorial works Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Greenleaf, Richard Cranch, 1887-1961 -- Catalogs Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration -- Catalogs Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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