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Nightgown
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Child's nightgown made of pink and white cotton with white cotton net lace. Short standing collar of pink cotton, covered with scalloped lace ruffle, set into very short pink cotton bodice with angularly patterned lace overlay; long, fitted sleeves of the same, with scalloped lace ruffles at wrists. Scalloped lace is also sewn into seam between bodice and gathered white cotton skirt. Center front closure with mother of pearl buttons.
2026.16.008
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Child, Female
Historic Costume
Youth
Nightgown
Female
Cotton
Lace
Cotton
White
Pink
1875 - 1885
19th Century
Inscription
Inside proper right front, at edge
Celeste F. Hough
Ink
52 in
10.5 in across shoulders, 27 in around overbust bodice/skirt seam, 10 in bicep
Drury, Celeste Frances Hough