Gold satin Corset with ecru lace, 1864

Name/Title

Gold satin Corset with ecru lace, 1864

Entry/Object ID

1989.24.14

Description

Acc. No. 89.24.14 Subject Category: Clothing Date or Period: 1864 Object: Corset Description: Corset gold colored satin trimmed in ecru colored lace (which appears to be handmade). Lacing & decorative details of blue colored silk thread. Back laced, front brass hooks & eyes. History of Object: Corset (purchased at the City of Paris, S.F.) worn by Eleanor Jane Lott to her marriage to Wm. Henry Davis, 1st. Unitarian Church, San Francisco, May 4th, 1864. They settled in Alameda in 1893. Acquired from: From the late Dorothy Birkholm Date: 9-20-1989