Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.063
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Wedding Dress of Helen Munroe Champlin. Cream satin, two-piece. Bodice fitted to below waist, buttoned down front, large rosette bow edged with silk point lace 3" wide. Same, narrower lace down sides of front and around neck. Also trimmed with folded satin bands. Long bustle back skirt with short train, draped from front to full bustle back, trimmed with satin rosettes from waist down sides and across bottom of train. Front panel of tiered point lace, shirred satin sides, and pleated hem. Lined with white cotton and same underskirt with barred muslin ruffles at back.
- Material:
- Textile
Satin
Cotton - Provenance:
- Note with gown: "Wedding gown of Helen Munroe Champlin (Great aunt of Avis Munroe Stevens) married in 1870 at Providence, Rhode Island."
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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