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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

Welcome to our Online Collections Database! Below you will find a searchable database showcasing images and information regarding tens of thousands of items in our online collection. Search using search terms, key words, object names, or names of historical figures to locate specific items, or, peruse at random to enjoy the breadth of collections available for view.

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Shirt

Object/Artifact

Entirely hand stitched fine linen shirt. Large size; side seams made of neatly butted selvages. Vents with reinforcements; large underarm gussets; deep and wide reinforcements at armscye and wide ones atop shoulder. Gusset at neck, and narrow external shoulder reinforcement. Deep neck slit with reinforcement at base. Deep collar and relatively narrow cuffs; two dorset buttons on collar and one each on cuff close to sleeve. Fine topstitching. Fine lawn frill on either side of neck opening. Illegible name inked at bottom, and “no. 1.

G2004.079

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1790 - 1810

shirt

hand stitched

frilled

linen

deep collar

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