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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Cap

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Boy’s jockey cap, dark blue silk velvet embroidered with rosebuds in blue silk (cotton?); 4-piece dome shape set onto a band, with narrow curved bill. 3 self buttons down each side seam. Hand stitched. Interlined with cotton batting and newspaper, lined with black silk twill. Silk sweatband. Paper has religious text- nothing datable.

G89.189

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Headwear

Child, Male

Historic Costume

Cap

Male

Velvet

Silk

Blue

1870 - 1885

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