Certificate of Sewing.

Certificate of Sewing.

Tailoring apprenticeship.

A handwritten certificate from 1886 by his colleagues at Claggett Brothers in Lexington, Illinois certifying Mr. Boller as an expert sewer when he was merely 17 years old.

Claggett, Blanche.

Jones, Isabelle.

Kennedy, Ella.

McCurdy, Laura.

Esahard, Kay (possibly).

Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook, Farmingdale State College Archives, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, New York.

July 18, 1886.

Boller, Claude Villette.

Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook, page 11.

Paper, with ribbon attached, 20 cm. x 25.5 cm.

English.

Text.

has this day sustained an honorable examination before a Bourd of experience practical sewers and graduated in the Theory and Practice of Sewing and in consideration of which we the Committee of examiners: Do grant this Diploma and confer upon him the Degree of Master Sewer. which Entitles him to the Confidence of the "Sewing Community" and exacts from him the consecration of his Cash efforts to promote the interest of his Employers. On Testimony Where of we have here unto affixed our names this Eight day of July A. D. 1886. At the City of Lexington and State of Illinois.

Kay Esahard          Isabelle Jones
Blanche Claggett          Ella Kennedy
Laura McCurdy

Paper, with ribbon attached, 20 cm. x 25.5 cm.