Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.432
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Dress, baby's. Long white cotton with tucking in V-shape down front interspersed with eleven rows of embroidered insertion. Embroidered edging at neck and around tucked back yoke. Sleeves tucked with embroidered insertion and edging. Wide, gathered embroidered edging at bottom with embroidered insertion.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- 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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