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Dress

Object Name:
Dress
Object ID:
1981.015
Date:
1895
Description:
Dress. Blue wool, challis twill weave, consists of skirt and jacket, lined with cotton twill. Jacket has buttoned front closing. Self ruffles around bottom of jacket, sleeves and skirt. Skirt lining is glazed cotton.
Material:
Textile
Wool
Cotton
Provenance:
Made by Clara Whitney (1853-1895), great-grandmother of donor, for Easter 1895. She died soon after. Clara lived in Antrim, NH.
Credit Line:
Gift of Shirley McAllister
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