Wedding Jacket

Name/Title

Wedding Jacket

Entry/Object ID

0009.044

Description

handmade gray wool jacket with cotton lining, white buttons in front

Use

worn at wedding Bessie (Heatwole) Wenger

Context

Made by Bessie for her wedding, Nov. 9, 1905

Collection

Wenger Family Collection

Cataloged By

Esther Landis Bittinger

Category

Clothing

Acquisition

Accession

0009

Source or Donor

Oscar & Bessie Heatwole Wenger family, Mildred Wenger Plank, Edith Virginia Wenger

Acquisition Method

Gift

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Jacket

Clothing Sex

Female

Size

adult

Textile Details

Fabric

Worsted Wool

Material

Wool, Fabric

Color

Gray

Made/Created

Artist

Bessie Heatwole Wenger

Date made

circa 1905

Time Period

20th Century, Early 20th Century

Place

County

Rockingham County

Region

Shenandoah Valley

State/Province

Virginia

Continent

North America

Notes

Homemade

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

CLOTHING--OUTERWEAR

Category

03--PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

Location

Location

Box 7

Room

Storage

Building

Welcome Center

Inventory

Inventory Project

INV2026.1

Inventoried By

Hannah Hendricks

Inventoried Date

Feb 28, 2026

General Notes

Note Type

Date Cataloged

Note

03/19/2007

Created By

Sherrie R. Johndrow

Create Date

June 20, 2007

Update Date

July 16, 2026