Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.383 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Dress. Green, pink, and white silk tissue taffeta plaid Empire-style dress, fastened down back. Long sleeves. Bodice lined with white cotton. Skirt pleated onto band at waist. Earlier 1810-style bodice, very short with cap sleeves, ball buttons with frogs down front. White silk ribbon ruching at sleeve hem probably cut off. All hand stitched.
- Material:
- Textile
- 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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