Copper Alloy Thimble and Pins · Learning from Cooper Street · Online Exhibits at Rutgers University-Camden

Title: Copper Alloy Thimble and Pins
Description: Straight pins filled a number of needs in the nineteenth-century household. Women used them to sew clothes and fasten baby diapers, and men used them to fasten documents before the invention of the staple. The thimble protected the pointer finger from needle injuries while sewing.
Contributor: Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
Date: Photograph July 2018
Publisher: Rutgers University-Camden
Relation: Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
Rights: Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
Source: Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
Subject: 300 BlockSee all items with this value; Alumni House DisplaySee all items with this value; ArchaeologySee all items with this value; ArtifactsSee all items with this value; ClothingSee all items with this value; SewingSee all items with this value