Cap
- Object Name:
- Cap
- Object ID:
- 2015.027.06
- Place of Origin:
- Germany
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Fraternity cap. Circular. Flat, black wool top with decorative gold metallic monogram (fraternity cipher). Red wool sides with gold braid bands. Red kid lining with red kid tab and a word written in script.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool
Leather - Dimensions:
- H-1.5 Dia-6 inches
- Provenance:
- Worn by Albertus T. Dudley (1866-1955) of Exeter, NH. Accompanied by note, "German fraternity student's cap was A.T. Dudley's, bought in Germany pre-World War I." Dudley graduated from Harvard in 1887 and studied in Germany. He taught at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1887-1995, and at Noble and Greenough's School in Boston, 1896-1917.
Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard, Anne Shepard Bullis, and G. Dudley Shepard
- People:
- Dudley, Albertus T. (1866-1955)
- Subjects:
- Fraternities & sororities
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