Collection Highlights
Leg brace
ca. 1940
2002.76
Leather, metal
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Historical memorabilia
Object name
Historical memorabilia
Date
1952
Medium
Cloth
Dimensions
30 x 10 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description
A large scrap of heavy woven off-white cloth, reportly sail cloth, with a single black thread marking each selvage and a hand written note attributing this object to the collection of Howard Townsend III, donated in 1952 along with manuscripts and purported to be, according a handwritten note "Here is the original and only genuine Jamestown sailcloth-still with us!".
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.4679
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
