Digital Collections
Mantle
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Entirely hand-stitched girl’s mantle made of brown cotton velveteen. Wide dome shape with small round collar, and semi-attached sleeve ends over arm slits. Trimmed with brown silk gimp and lined with white, red and green plaid silk taffeta.
G2004.060
Child, Female
Historic Costume
Cape
Female
Velveteen
Taffeta
Brown
Green
Red
1850 - 1865
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