1800s milliner's bandboxes, hatboxes, Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA.

1800s bandboxes and hatboxes are arranged as in an old milliner's shop, at the Shelburne Museum near Lake Champlain, in Vermont, USA. Stackable bandboxes peaked in popularity between 1825-1850 as Americans moved cheaper and faster via canals and locomotives. Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, unconventional museums of American folk art. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 38 buildings, 25 of which are historic (relocated from New England and New York). Electra Havemeyer Webb, an avid collector of American folk art, founded the Museum in 1947.

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Contained in galleries: VT: Shelburne Museum, 2014 Sep 25-Oct 19: all: Northeast USA

1800s bandboxes and hatboxes are arranged as in an old milliner's shop, at the Shelburne Museum near Lake Champlain, in Vermont, USA. Stackable bandboxes peaked in popularity between 1825-1850 as Americans moved cheaper and faster via canals and locomotives. Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, unconventional museums of American folk art. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 38 buildings, 25 of which are historic (relocated from New England and New York). Electra Havemeyer Webb, an avid collector of American folk art, founded the Museum in 1947.