Pearl Necklace Gallery

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, c1600, (1942). Creator: Paulus van Somer

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, c1600, (1942). Portrait of author, playwright and poet Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronage. After an oil painting made late 16th-early 17th century. From "English Women", by Edith Sitwell. [Collins, London, 1942]

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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, May 1870. Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, May 1870. A black-and-white print of a 19th-century woman in a frilly dress, staring to the right in a pensive manner. She wears three pearl necklaces and holds flowers

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Pearl necklace from Mae's Millinery Shop, 1941-1994. Creator: Unknown

Single strand pearl necklace that closes with a metal tab insert fastener. Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage

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