This is a straw “boater”- a style of hat popular from the 1890s to the 1920s. It was sold in the Burnett Hat Shop in Amherst, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1829, L.M. Hills & Sons had a hat factory in town. In 1892, the business was purchased by George B. Burnet & Son, who also sold hats made elsewhere, such as this one.
The Ritz-Carlton, Metropolis. Straw Hat. ca. 1900. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1986-05-01/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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