Cap

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Cap

Entry/Object ID

CW 791 b

Description

Caps. Infant’s. Two dotted mull [muslin] caps (CW 781 a & b). Ruffled edges. No condition given. Both Circa 1800. Belonged to Anna Canby Smyth who was married to David Smyth in 1815. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Depth

6-1/2 in

Provenance

Notes

Caps belonged to Anna Canby Smyth who was married to David Smyth in 1815. The donor, Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson), was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey, who married James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915. Emily Smyth Cooper Johnson was a 1907 graduate of Bryn Mawr College. From 1911 to 1919 she served ad Chairman of Trustees of Camden Friends' School.