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Dress
Object/Artifact
Girl’s dress, mostly machine stitched. Made of plaid merino wool or wool-cotton mix, having red, green, black, blue and yellow on white ground. Wide flaring body on the bias, no waist, with diagonal opening in front, edged with black velvet ribbon and closed with flat black glass buttons. Coat sleeves with wide band of black velvet ribbon around bottom, and above the hem. Tiny standing collar. Lined with tan lining cambric. No pocket.
G2006.153
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1865 - 1870
User Age: Child Gender: Female
American
Dress
Child
Female
Girl
machine stitched
merino
cambric
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