Wedding Dress
ca. 1820 (made)
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High waisted dress of white satin, short puff sleeves, front fastening of hooks and eyes. Bodice trimmed with buttons and braid, muslin flounces at sleeves and around lower portion of skirt. The short puffed sleeves covered with muslin and with short piped cap oversleeve, the hem edged with scalloped decoration edged with piping. Back of bodice has been altered with insertions of fabric to enlarge waist size.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | satin and muslin |
| Brief description | Wedding dress, ca. 1820, USA; probably Massachusetts. Worn by Charlotte Cooley for her marriage to Cyrus Sullivan Clark. White satin and muslin with flounces and braid trim |
| Physical description | High waisted dress of white satin, short puff sleeves, front fastening of hooks and eyes. Bodice trimmed with buttons and braid, muslin flounces at sleeves and around lower portion of skirt. The short puffed sleeves covered with muslin and with short piped cap oversleeve, the hem edged with scalloped decoration edged with piping. Back of bodice has been altered with insertions of fabric to enlarge waist size. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Campbell |
| Object history | This dress was worn by Charlotte Cooley for her marriage to Cyrus Sullivan Clark of Portland. The family lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was donated by her great-grandaughter, who also donated the wedding dresses of Cyrus and Charlotte Clark's daughter (1867, see T.37&A-1951), their granddaughter (1900, see T.38-1951), and her own 1924 dress (T.39-1951). |
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| Accession number | T.36-1951 |
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| Record created | June 22, 2009 |
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