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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Calash

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Olive green silk with 8 high cane hoops, double self-frills around the front edge; 2 smaller hoops forming flat back plane, fabric drawn toward straight line in center; 4-inch cape; tarlatan lining; black heavy thread from center front; fragment of 3 /4” tan ribbon at side fronts; yellow ribbons pinned.

G88.322

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Headwear

Child, Female

Historic Costume

Bonnet

Female

Silk

Green

1800 - 1825

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