Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.060
- Date:
- 1842
- Description:
- Cloth fragment, silk. Brown and black repeating patterns of straight lines. Straight sides with parallel curved ends. With note: "Brown silk - a dress - / Desire Tubbs had when / married in Oct. 1842 E-" (Most of note written in ink, E- at end is in pencil.)
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-29.6 W-27.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
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