Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.463
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Dress, girl's. White cotton (cambric). Three-button back opening. Three-quarter puffed sleeves with lace edging. Openwork embroidery down front, on cuffs and at bottom of skirt. Wide lace band tucking on skirt. Skirt gathered into long, dropped waistline and horizontal tucking above embroidery. Vertical lace inserts front and back in bodice.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- L-23 inches
- 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
- Subjects:
- Children's clothing and dress, Clothing and dress
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