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Dress

Object Name:
Dress
Object ID:
1965.009.02 a-b
Date:
1910
Description:
Dress. Linen plain weave with strong filling yarns "crash". Long skirt, embroidered at front and on stand-up collar, three-quarter,silk embroidered sleeves and card trim at sleeves, silk, embroidery on skirt. Embroidered by donor's mother, Nellie Jane Baker Osgood. Dress made by a dressmaker.
Material:
Textile
Linen
Silk
Provenance:
Embroidered by Nellie Jane Baker Osgood, mother of the donor, in the early 1900s. It was then completed by a dressmaker, since Mrs. Osgood did not like, or do, "plain sewing."
Credit Line:
Gift of Margaret Gault
People:
Osgood, Nellie
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