Description:
Cream-colored sheer wool crepe shawl with a block-printed border and corner motifs in red, green, grey and yellow, and a 2" knotted fringe. The shawl was a gift of Parker Dole Hubbard (1919-1994), son of George Caleb Hubbard (b.1878) and Florence Graves Hubbard, grandson of Parker Dole Hubbard (1825-1895) and Elizabeth Newton Hubbard (1842-1915), great-grandson of Ashley Hubbard and Betsey Dole Hubbard (1794-1862), and great-great grandson of Caleb Hubbard (1754-1850) and Lucretia Ashley Hubbard (1767-1853) of the Hubbard Tavern in the Plumtrees section of Sunderland, Mass.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; polychrome; Wool

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