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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
What's Inside?: A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900-1999

What's Inside?: A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900-1999

Davis, Anita
Esse Purse Museum &. Store

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Antiques & CollectiblesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1944528865
ISBN13: 9781944528867
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 7 2018
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Purses are much more than fashionable objects containing items women need to go about their daily business. Purses are personal, private places into which only the privileged dare put their hands, vessels of the feminine that hold the essence of a woman's individuality.

What's Inside compliments the permanent exhibition of ESSE Purse Museum & Store, offering intimate portraits of this most intimate accessory. Open the book and step inside one of only three purse museums in the world where, decade by decade, you'll conjure the lives and habits of 20th century American women through clutch-sized vignettes and gleaming minaudières of fashion. In these pages, discover evocative photographs of purses and their contents, enticing essays, vibrant artistic renderings, and illuminating historical fictions.

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