Exhibit brochure for the Visitor Center at the McFaddin-Ward House, which charts the development and history of handbags in the first half of the twentieth century. On display until August 2008.

1. The role of women outside of Objects on exhibit:
the home continued in the Compact-style silver reticule, ca 1910s, with compart-
ments for change, “Mamie Louise McFaddin’s” calling
1940s, particularly during
World War II, when
cards, and powder puff
Sterling silver chatelaine, ca. 1910s, with attached ele-
PURSE-onalized
ments consisting of powder case, change case, a re-
women often held primary tractable pencil, and a pencil with cover
responsibility in the workplace and at home “Whiting and Davis” mesh clasp purse, ca. 1910s, con-
with husbands and fathers over