Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.006
- Date:
- circa 1875
- Description:
- Dress. Copen blue silk dress with ribbed and sprigged pattern (bombazine?). Very short. Bodice trimmed with shirring above bustline. One row of ruffles at hem of skirt. Two pieces. Cotton twill lining in bodice; cambric in skirt.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton - Provenance:
- Collected by the donor's sister, Marion L. Cass (1894-1963). Miss Cass developed the collection around a core of the personal possessions of her mother, Lillie M. (Wilson) Cass (1867-1951) and added objects passed down in neighboring Haverhill, NH, families. Later, while living and working in Littleton, NH, she devoted her spare time to expanding her collection, eventually representing over a century of changes in clothing and accessory styles.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merwin P. Cass
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