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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Pants

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched boy’s trousers made of wool with ivory and blue-green checks. Side buttoning. Angled welt pockets on either side. Bennington-type buttons with brass bezels and fine gilt brass buttons on the base of welts and at side plackets. Twill tape label inside side opening, with typed note: “1862 P-C3-pa-2".

G2001.078

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Child, Male

Historic Costume

Pants

Male

Wool

Glazed Cotton

Blue

White

1860 - 1865

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