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Hat

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Doll's hat of off-white cotton with machine-sewn embroidery and eyelets and off-white dotted swiss, interfaced with heavily starched cotton. Crown is made as a circle of the embroidered cotton (interfaced) with a bias-cut band of swiss around it, slightly pleated where it meets brim; brim consists of long rectangle of embroidered cotton gathered to crown (top) and a plain circle of swiss (underside), sandwiching interfacing. A pink silk ribbon is tied around crown in a bow.

2026.16.014.5

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Doll Clothes

Doll

Hat

Female

Cotton

White

Dotted Swiss

Cotton

White

Satin

Ribbon

Silk

Pink

1890 - 1910

6-7/8 in

Griffin, Irene Drury

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