Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.461
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Dress, child's. Peach-colored wool challis with overall pattern of red, green, and blue dots. Large square neck and short ruffled sleeves, skirt ruffled and deep tuck. Narrow blue braid at neck sleeves, down front of waist and around skirt ruffle, tuck and top of hem. Blue buttons down front. Buttoned at back with same blue buttons.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Wool - Dimensions:
- L-19 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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