Bunting
- Object Name:
- Bunting
- Object ID:
- 2018.021.01
- Date:
- 1939
- Description:
- Baby bunting. Cream cotton flannel, with hood and zipper front. Embroidered cat on front. Silk lining.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-17 inches
- Provenance:
- Worn by Rita Gagnon Goulet, daughter of Everett J. Gagnon (1900-1994), an auto mechanic born in Concord, NH, and Juliette Niquette (1908-1979), a shoe worker born in Manchester, who were married on September 6, 1937. They lived on 34 Beacon Street, eventually buying and moving to their own home at 120 Rumford Street, Concord, in 1943. Everett "Hank" Gagnon worked as a mechanic maintaining vehicles for the State of New Hampshire Highway Division and Juliette Gagnon worked as a mailer for the Rumford Press and a bookkeeper at the Concord National Bank. Their daughter, Rita, was born April 1, 1939. She attended Sacred Heart Grammar School and graduated from Concord High School in 1958. She then moved to Manchester and married.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Everett and Juliette Gagnon family
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