Name/Title
Cotton Bloomers from the Dietz Sisters, c. 1900Entry/Object ID
1983.53.3Description
ACC. NO. 83.53.3
SUBJECT CATEGORY: Clothing
DATE OR PERIOD: c. 1900 (late)
OBJECT: Bloomers
DESCRIPTION: white cotton with an embroidered flounce (machine made).
Size: Gathered waist is 30", length is 23".
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
Belonged to either the Miss E. L. or Miss M. A. Dietz, founders of Sunny Cove Beach, Alameda (1881). These ladies came to Alameda from Oakland where their brother had founded the Dietz Opera House. Sunny Cove Beach ran up to the 1950's. The Dietz ladies were great aunts of the donor. Paden School is now on the former site of Sunny Cove Beach.
ACQUIRED FROM: Marjorie Fraley,
DATE: December 10, 1983
