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Pair of women's shoes
American
1893
Object Place: Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Suede, leather, silk cord, silk ribbon, and cut brass beads
Dimensions
23.3 x 6.7 x 11 cm (9 3/16 x 2 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. D. Hardwick Bigelow
Accession Number1993.1017a-b
OUT ON LOAN
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
Catalogue Raisonné
6. Self-fashioning
DescriptionMade by donor's maternal grandfather: Joseph Chapin Kimball possibly for the Crossett Shoe Co. For the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago of 1893. Suede; embroidered. Cream cut suede uppers, embroidered with metal beads (cut steel??) with a silk ribbon rosette at toes. Condition: good, worm (?) holes on side of shoes.
Provenance1993, year-end gift of Marion Bigelow Bianchi (b. 1935 - d. 2016), Chestnut Hill, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 1994)