Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.040
- Date:
- circa 1845
- Description:
- Dress. Pale pink and green changeable silk taffeta dress, slightly boned with fitted cotton twill lined bodice hooked down back. Front gathered at shoulders and sewed into tiny pleats at pointed front. Full skirt with original cardridge pleats corded onto bodice. Underskirt of fine polished tan cotton with pinked hem. Wide underhem to skirt of same polished cotton. Short oversleeves with fine tucked bottom and long straight sleeves.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Skeletal
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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