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Cap
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Boy’s jockey cap, dark blue silk velvet embroidered with rosebuds in blue silk (cotton?); 4-piece dome shape set onto a band, with narrow curved bill. 3 self buttons down each side seam. Hand stitched. Interlined with cotton batting and newspaper, lined with black silk twill. Silk sweatband. Paper has religious text- nothing datable.
G89.189
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Headwear
Child, Male
Historic Costume
Cap
Male
Velvet
Silk
Blue
1870 - 1885
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