Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1997.016.03
- Place of Origin:
- Danville, NH
- Date:
- circa 1816
- Description:
- Dress. Worn by Jane Eaton (1793-1826), Danville, NH; c. 1816. One-piece; floor length. White cotton. Long, straight sleeves. Low square neck. High bodice. Cotton ruffle on neck and cuffs. Two tie back closure. Ruffled in back. One buttonhole on back. Floral embroidery along bottom 8" of skirt. Coarse cotton stitched to interior in underarm sections.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- Origially owned and worn by Jane (Eaton) French (1793-1826), of Danville, great-great- grandmother of the donor, Halcyon Hobbs Springer.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Halcyon Hobbs Springer, in Memory of her grandmother, Minnie Douglas Smith
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