Object ID
2005.5.10.2
Object Name
Jacket
Date Created
1970s
Measurements
35.0850200000 cm. W x 17.3050200000 cm. L The width was taken from the end of one sleeve to the other. Since this is a textile, the dimensions may change depending on how it is displayed., Item (Overall)
Material
Yarn
Object Entities
Price, Theodora (created by)
Price, Theodora (is related to)
Access Points
Object Description
Pink crocheted baby jacket with puff balls and buttons on the front. The puff balls are on strings that tie in a bow in the front. The buttons of the jacket are yellow. The edges of the sleeves of the jacket are slightly scalloped. This is a part of a corresponding outfit (2005.5.10).
Origin
This was knitted by the donor, Theodora Hadzisteliou Price in the early 1970s, while pregnant with her first son. She quit teaching and research in Archaeology and did fulltime preparation for motherhood. She had left Greece in 1962 for graduate studies in England, after which she worked for a bit in the University of Sydney, Australia, and then migrated to America in 1967 to New York, after which she came to chicago in 1968 and taught Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Chicago.
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Citation
Jacket, 1970s, National Hellenic Museum, https://collections.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/Detail/objects/6406. Accessed 03/28/24.