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Dress owned by Charlotte Perkins.

Source :
The Connecticut Historical Society Museum

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.

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