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Visite
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Visite of black ribbed wool, unlined, edged with a trim of black glass beads and black silk braid and with black silk fringe. Turn-down collar (fastening with hook and eye); front extends to knee level and is trimmed with a double row of trim and fringe. Machine sewn.
2016.005.9
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Adult, Female
Outerwear
Historic Costume
Cape
Female
Wool
Black
1883 - 1889
19th Century
Late 19th Century
Shaffer, Anna