Nightgown
- Object Name:
- Nightgown
- Object ID:
- 2000.012.10
- Creator:
- Tuttle, Ellen Maria Flanders
Dressmaker - Place of Origin:
- East Andover, NH
- Date:
- 1850-1870
- Description:
- Nightgown. White cotton muslin, eyelet trim. Short sleeves, wide scoop neck. Built-in bib on front, fully decorated with fabric tucks and embroidered lace, white-on-white. Matching lace and embroidered ribbon along collar and sleeve holes. Fabric doubled at underarms.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-41 inches
- Provenance:
- Note from donor about 2000.012.09-.10: "a morning coat and matching short sleeved nightgown of white cotton and multiple tucked bodice front and back and edged with eyelet embroidery.... Garments were made by my paternal great grand-mother Ellen Maria Flanders Tuttle, a dress maker and milliner from East Andover, NH. Wife of Weare Drake Tuttle. Sister of Dr. Charles Flanders, Manchester, NH. These garments were ... used as teaching tools for my Historic Costume and Design course at Hesser College in Manchester, NH."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Anne Landini
- People:
- Flanders, Ellen, Tuttle, Ellen
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