Name/Title
Gold satin Corset with ecru lace, 1864Entry/Object ID
1989.24.14Description
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