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Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Entirely hand stitched dress, thin white cotton, printed with colored sprigs on ground of dotted pin stripes; slightly bell sleeves with tucks, separate ground of dotted pin stripes; slightly bell sleeves with tucks, separate bodice with pointed waist with frilled robings; skirt gathered on, per “rehab” job; back opening, cotton lining, boned CF, unlined skirt.
G88.152
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1847 - 1850