Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.482
- Date:
- circa 1817
- Description:
- Dress, child's. White cotton printed with overall fine design and sprigs of blue and green flowers. Bodice with yoke and wide yoke collar edged with whitework. Narrow whitework band at neck and at waist. Full long sleeves with upturned cuff edged with hamburg. Plain full skirt gathered into waistband.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- L-32 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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