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Dress owned by Charlotte Perkins.
- Source :
- The Connecticut Historical Society Museum
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Abstract
- Sheer white cotton dress has a very high waist, short puffed sleeves, and a wide, square neckline. The back of the skirt is gathered at the waist. Floral embroidery is at the neckline, bottom hem, and in a diagonal line across the front of the dress.
- Subjects :
- Dance.
Dancing
Danse.
Dance.
Clothing & dress.
Hartford (Conn.)
Connecticut Hartford.
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- The Connecticut Historical Society Museum
- Notes :
- Title supplied by cataloger., This dress may have been worn to the 1805 Hartford Dancing Assemblies by Charlotte Perkins (1790-1873), daughter of Enoch Perkins, a lawyer, and Anna Pitkin Perkins.
- Accession number :
- edsoai.ocm74325100