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6 Torsos, Center One Blue

Object/Artifact

One in pale pink simple dinner dress with lace bertha. Next is back view of same coiffure, blue dress. Center is blur day dress with long sleeves full at the elbow. Yellow bonnet. Third is profile of gray dress with wide-opening sleeves with turnback cuffs and undersleeves. Then white dinner dress with bertha and bands with cloth rosettes around upper arm. Last is similar with V neck. She carries a tussie-mussie.

2022.35.0477

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Le Follet, Plate No. 1051

1838 - 1839

Old Number

2009.019.21

Paper

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