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Receipt, Maison Worth

This is a Receipt. It was attributed to House of Worth.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Cooper Union Library as part of Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

It is dated 1898. Its medium is ink on paper. It is a part of the department.

This receipt details a shopping visit by the Hewitts to Maison Worth in Paris. Once they established the museum, Worth gifted textile samples from the fashion house to be used for study.

It is credited The Cooper Union Archives and Special Collections.

Its dimensions are

H x W (Estimate): 25.4 × 17.8 cm (10 × 7 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

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