Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.699
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Dress. Green printed figured wool dress, with widely spaced design of medallion type, black, yellow, red, white, and blue. Fitted bodice, drop shoulders, straight sleeves, lace trim at collar and cuffs. Brown and white buttons down front. Lined with heavy natural color cotton muslin. Skirt gathered onto waist with 6" glazed cotton hem tape at hem. Self piping at waist and sleeves. Two rows of narrow black braid forming yoke at front and on sleeves apparently added later. Altered at waistline, let down crudely and put back together with the front closure changed. Originally hand stitched.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - 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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