Cape

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Cape

Entry/Object ID

CW 2756

Description

Cape. Child's cape; rectangular; gathered to blue grosgrain ribbon; blue feather fitching near all edges. Worn by Thomas Philip Haviland circa 1897. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Material

silk ribbon

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Haviland, Thomas, Philip

Provenance

Notes

Owner: Thomas Philip Haviland Worn by Thomas Philip Haviland in 1897. Donor notes: The donor's husband, Thomas Philip Haviland, was a 1919 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in English in 1929. He served on the English faculty of the University of Pennsylvania beginning 1921. Haviland lived at 130 West Johnson Street in Germantown, Philadelphia. (Source: University of Pennsylvania: https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/faculty/in-memorium)