Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1965.047.03
- Date:
- 1831
- Description:
- Dress, baby's. Fine white cotton. Yoke-like top with gathering string or tape at neck, short sleeves at shoulder. Medium long skirt with fine tucking and two rows of point trimming.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- Label sewn onto guimpe: "Made by Southworth's great aunt (Mrs. Nathl. B. Shurtleff) for her son Nathaniel (who was afterward killed in the War of the Rebellion) and by her given to Southworth in 1885 when it was about 60 years old." Mrs. Shurtleff lived in Boston.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sayre
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