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Visite

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Visite of black ribbed wool, unlined, edged with a trim of black glass beads and black silk braid and with black silk fringe. Turn-down collar (fastening with hook and eye); front extends to knee level and is trimmed with a double row of trim and fringe. Machine sewn.

2016.005.9

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Adult, Female

Outerwear

Historic Costume

Cape

Female

Wool

Black

1883 - 1889

19th Century

Late 19th Century

Shaffer, Anna

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