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Object Number 99-12-10/53830
Display Title Pair ladies colonial overshoes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Overshoes, ladies', stitched hide soles, hide uppers with velveteen covering
Classification
  • Footwear
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • American
  • Colonial Period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 6 x 20 x 7.5 cm (2 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 53830 / L52/2/152
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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