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Carriage Dress, Green Pelisse, Long Black Lace Veil

Object/Artifact

Carriage dress, lady in long green loose pelisse with flaring round lace-edged collar over a dress of white spotted muslin. Green bootees and small hat swathed in one end of a long black lace veil draped down one side of the head, to the hem.

2022.35.0506

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Ackermann's Repository of Arts

1811

Old Number

2010.073.07

Paper

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