Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1950.002.01
- Creator:
- Houston, Eliza Ann (1823-1910)
Dressmaker - Place of Origin:
- Nashua, NH
- Date:
- 1839
- Description:
- Dress. Silk. Gold damask with flower and leaf design. Fitted and boned bodice shirred in point at front and shirred around front of low, boat neck. Short sleeves with ruffle and shirring. Hooked down back. Full waist and skirt. Padded bust and lined with handwoven cotton. Cotton underskirt checked in brown and red. Wide, cream-colored copper-plate hem lining. Separate embroidered white lawn sleeves (1950.2.1 a-b). Card with gown reads "handmade by Eliza Ann H(o)uston in 1839, at the age of sixteen years.".
- Material:
- Textile
- Provenance:
- The gown was made by donor's great aunt, Eliza Ann Houston (1823-1910), of Nashua in 1839. Eliza Ann Houston married (1) Eben Berry Libbey, Nashua, NH, and married (2) Alfred Richards, Manchester, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Grace May Smith
- People:
- Houston, Eliza Ann (1823-1910)
- Subjects:
- Dressmaking, Seamstresses, Tailoring, Flowers
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