Description:
Pair of hand-knitted wool, child's mittens; white with red trim on the wrists and cuffs, which have a Stebbins family provenance. Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966) married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins (1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deerfield.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Wool

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