Bowdoin College Museum of Art - There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

BALL, BLACK, & COMPANY (American, 1851-1874), Thimble belonging to Phebe Ann Jacobs (formerly enslaved to Maria Wheelock; servant to the Allen family), 19th century, silver, Courtesy the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, William Allen Family Papers, Bowdoin College Library. Artwork in the public domain.

mage of a small fabric-covered box (at left) that reads: “Ball, Black and Co. Jewelers, New York,” with a used silver thimble that is engraved with the initials “P,” “A,” and “J.”

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

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