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- GLC#
- GLC07731.02
- Type
- Objects
- Date
- circa 1882
- Title
- ["Any holder but a Slave holder" potholder]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 textile Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 17 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Based on the accompanying letter (GLC 7731.01), created by Miss Lena, who gave the potholder to Frederick Douglass as a gift after reading his narrative. Depicts two African Americans (one male and one female) holding hands and dancing against a caramel colored background. Text is stitched above and below the dancing figures. Appears to be a form of needlepoint stitching.
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