Object Record

Images

1 of 1977

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Metadata

Object ID #

1965.007.005

Object Name

Hat, Straw

Title

Woman's Hat from the Misses MacDonald Millinery Shop

Lexicon category

3: Personal Artifacts

Year Range from

1892

Year Range to

1932

Made

Misses MacDonald

Place of Origin

Owen Sound, Grey County

Description

Woman's black straw hat with an ostrich feather mount. The black straw is smooth and fine-plaited. There is a soft, flexible brim, which is designed to turn upwards on the right hand side. There is a 5.6 cm high black velvet band encircling the base of the crown of the hat. The band is cut on a diagonal at the right hand side and fastens with a straight pin. The black ostrich feather mount emerges from the velvet band, on the right side. The inside edge of the hat is trimmed with a black velvet band on the right side. The interior is lined with a black woolen fabric. The inside lining tightens by means of a drawstring. There are silver and black textile labels present. One has "The Lynat Registered Trade Mark G.G. A...." and the other has "The Misses MacDonald, Millinery, Owen Sound, Ontario." Black-coloured, man-made woven material with ostrich feather trim on wide black velvet ribbon on crown. Inside cotton inner lining and velvet ribbon.

Makers mark

There are silver and black textile labels present. One has "The Lynat Registered Trade Mark G.G. A...." and the other has "The Misses MacDonald, Millinery, Owen Sound, Ontario."

Provenance

This hat is pre-1930s and was made and sold by the Misses MacDonald Millinery shop of Owen Sound, Grey County.

In an 1892 directory of Owen Sound, there was one Miss McDonald, Milliner, listed at 27 Poulett St. (main street). She lived on Bay St. In the 1902-1904 Vernon's directory, a millinery business operated by Misses S. & B. MacDonald at 28 Poulett St. is listed. They lived at 29 Stephen St. at that time.
Page 619 of the UNION PUBLISHING COMPANY (OF INGERSOLL) FARMERS AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR THE COUNTIES OF BRUCE, GREY AND SIMCOE, 1903, Vol. X111. lists the Misses McDonald (sic) at Owen Sound.
The 1909 Cole's Directory of Owen Sound had an ad for them, at 28 Poulett St.
In the 1917 telephone directory of Owen Sound, the "Misses MacDonald" were still milliners at 977 2nd Ave. East. They were listed at the same locale in a 1926 phonebook, but are not seen in a 1932 directory of Owen Sound businesses, nor in the 1936 telephone book.

Last owned by Daisy Lamb (neé Wright) of Owen Sound.

Collection

Textiles, 20th-c Clothing Collection, Women's

Material

Straw/Velvet/Feather/Thread/Dye

Dimensions

H-10.2 W-27.5 L-30.9 cm

Found