Sample card of glass seed beads

Titles: Sample card of glass seed beads (Supplied title)

Description: Rectangular cardboard card strung with one hundred ten samples glass seed beads in various sizes and colors. It is labeled "AMERICAN BEAD COMPANY INC. / BEADS / IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF NOVELTIES / 485 Fifth Avenue [dot] NEW YORK" at the top front. On the left edge of one side of the card is handwritten "H D Ayer, Onamia, Minn.". Several numbers are penciled at the top of the other side. The card is a sales sample identical to cards 10000.838 and 10000.840; all were in stock at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, Onamia, Minnesota.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1920 - Not later than 1959 (Creation)

Creation

• imported by: American Bead Company, Inc.
• used by: Ayer, Harry Darius
• used at: Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 10000.839

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, The Harry and Jeannette Ayer Collection.

Notes

• Jeannette O. and Harry D. Ayer Ojibwe Collection.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 9 1/8 inches length
• 6 1/4 inches width

Subjects

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