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Untitled (Red man with Ocean, Dalmation & Nude) Judy Dater 1985 This is a photographic emulsion print on handmade paper in tones of red, black, and white. The composition is divided into three sections. The top section shows ocean waves. The center shows a...	flier Sutter Creek 2008 Flier for the 6th International Jug Band Festival, found posted in a shop in Sutter Creek and given to Adam Nilsen by shopkeeper. Flier shows the face of what appears to be a white-bearded...
shoe covering Mexico \| Immigrant 2008 Shoe covering, handmade from a cut piece of a South American-style striped woolen blanket, with a piece of rigid wire and pieces of blue twine stitched around the edges. The wire and twine it...	shoe covering Mexico \| Immigrant 2008 Shoe covering, handmade from a cut piece of a South American-style striped woolen blanket, with a piece of rigid wire stitched around the edges. This wire makes it possible to secure the...
Here for LIfe Livermore Action Group \| Rafael Jes?s Gonz?lez 1983 Front side shows the words "Lifers: here for life" and a logo for the Lifers, a division of the Livermore Action Group. Back gives a poem by Rafael Jesus Gonzalez and identifies the occasion at...	quilt crib quilt Ethel Dewey Wilson \| Wyoming c. 1937 This crib quilt is an album quilt made of twenty hand embroidered white blocks, with baby blue borders, sashing and binding. The binding and quilting have been done by machine. The blocks...
bootie ca. 1889-1890 Baby booties (Coastume-Children's Wear). Description: Pair baby booties, natural color chamois, hand stitched in pink silk, with fine grossgrain ribbon at ankel. Very good condition....	shoe c. 1812 Shoes. Description: black silk, thin leather bottoms, hand sewn, one is resewn, both in good condition. slipper style. History: Used in marriage ceremonies in successive generations of the Hays...
shoe 1800-1830 Pr. Kid Shoes. Inventory: flat slipper, handsewn, white kid ribbon tie at instep 1800-20.	poster 1961 Poster. Description: "Benefit Poetry Marathon for Sun Magazine ...". Black marker pen hand lettering on yellow posterboard. Tack holes at top corners, somewhat soiled and discolored overall....
apron Early 19th Century Lady's apron, hand made. Early 19th Century	clothes pin Clothes-pins. handmade
clothes pin Clothes-pins. handmade	emery ball Emery ball, in strawberry form,. Handmade.
postcard Frank Walsh \| Arizona 3-Nov-12 Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...	postcard Frank Walsh \| Arizona 4-Dec-12 Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...
postcard Frank Walsh \| Arizona 7-Jul-12 Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...	postcard Frank Walsh \| Arizona 27-Apr-16 Postcards written and illustrated on shirt collars and shirt cuffs, family photographs. The writer and artist was Frank Walsh, a miner working in Arizona mines. The recipient was Guy Mooers, his...
(Young Couple) unknown c. 1858 Old Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes	clothes pin Clothespins, hand-made. Received from: Davis Brothers, Kent, Ohio. From the History Information Station There were very few stores when the forty-niners arrived in California....
blouse 1902-1906 Black sateen skirt (A) and linen blouse (B). Description: Blouse: hand embroidered, linen, white (Russian). History: Worn as an ensemble by Gertrude Holmes (Mrs. George Kierulff) when she was a...	skirt Vietnam \| Hmong c. 1970-1985 Skirt, made from two rectangular pieces. One piece, the waist band, is 5 .75" wide and is made of natural color cotton (?) with two decorative stripes running with the selvedges at either...
tunic Trude Guermonprez \| California College of Arts and Crafts \| Rockridge neighborhood c. 1958 tunic. Description: loom-formed tunic (tubular construction) of silk and linen (ochre-green) with inlays of brown, pink, blue, orange and yellow,; batteau neck-line, no sleeves; lined in buff...	Mrs. Mary Chinn, Sponsor, Miss Vivian Lew, Maid of Honor The Permanente Metals Corporation \| Shipyard Number Two \| Richmond 8-Jul-43 Two placecards for the launching of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, at Kaiser's Shipyard Number Two, Richmond, California, July 8, 1943. Both cards are silk screened in blue, light blue and coral color...