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Where did you get that old spool and thread holder?

Publication
Wilmette Life, 22 Feb 2007, A1, A14
Description
Media Type
Newspaper
Item Types
Articles
Photographs
Notes
Museums are increasingly searching eBay to find artifacts for museum collections. Comments by Curator Patrick Leary of Wilmette Historical Museum. He found a matchbook for sale from a previously unknown business, Barney's Billiards, during the 1920s on Wilmette Avenue.

Photograph museum costume and textiles curator, Jane Textor with a thread holder made by artist Rosa May Pickard
Date of Publication
22 Feb 2007
Personal Name(s)
Textor, Jane
Corporate Name(s)
Wilmette Historical Museum
Local identifier
Wilmette.News.287245
Language of Item
English
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