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Men's Full Dress: 13th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Wheel, Spinning
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black painted wooden spinning wheel. Four turned legs mortised through a horizontal bench. Two turned poles support a large wheel with turned spokes. Two bobbin holders mounted on a flat bench. Hand forged iron hardware. Wooden pegs used on mortised joints. 37" high.
Native American Moccasins (pair)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)they are stitched entirely by hand. The uppers are decorated with white, red and blue beads sewn on in geometric patterns. Leather ties around the ankles secured the moccasins.
Engraving of woman wearing a Zouave Neglige
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)with it is worn a shirt with plaited linen bosom, and fancy silk necktie. Tuscan braid hat trimmed in black velvet and straw. Taken from “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” vol. 63 (July, 1861). Dimensions: 5.5"x9.5".
Men's Full Dress: Early 16th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Men's Full Dress: Early 16th Century
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Men's Full Dress: Late 15th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Machine, Sewing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black cast iron Singer brand sewing machine in an oak vaneered case with a lid and two drawers per side. Cast iron bracket legs and treadle. Leather drive belt on the drive wheel at the side.
No title [Winged Republic/victory on deep blue background]
Image | French World War I PostersA winged green woman holds an olive branch up to the light in front of a blue background.
Men's Full Dress: Early 17th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Men's Full Dress: 17th Century, Early Restoration
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Men's Full Dress: Early 17th Century
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Men's Full Dress: Elizabethan
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Native American Wedding Belt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the edges are trimmed with green silk. The front is decorated with tiny glass beads of many colors sewn on in an abstract floral pattern. Long, narrow tapes woven of red wool and ending in red wool yarn tassels serve to fasten the belt around the wearer's waist.
Men's Full Dress: Early 16th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Men's Full Dress: Elizabethan
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Men's Full Dress: 14th Century
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Men's Full Dress: Early 15th Century
Image | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Comb, Hair
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Dark brown and gold streaked hair comb. Eight long teeth, ornately carved crest with pierced and carved dragon design which wraps around itself. Scroll-vine design around the edge.
Negative, Glass-plate
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Partial glass plate negative. Picture of Zay Wright in the yard standing under a tree. She is dressed in a white ruffled mid-length dress. She's wearing white sandals with heels, stockings, and has a large white bow in her hair. She is holding a book and is wearing a bracelet and a necklace.
Kickapoo Bear Chief (Mkopahmah)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bear Chief (Mkopahmah) was a Kickapoo Indian living on the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. He was photographed by Milo Custer, who visited there in 1906 and 1911.
World War II German Submariner Uniform
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A World War II German submariner leather uniform. Black leather jacket and pants with gold anchor buttons. Pants have leather suspenders buttoned to the pants at four points. The inside of the jacket is lined with black wool and the pants are lined with heavy insulated fabric.
Nightcap, sewn by Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ladies' nightcap. Plain white cotton, gathered in back. Ruffle framing cap. Two ties, under chin. Entire cap hand-sewn. L 15 " x W 10

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