Child's Jacket

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Child's Jacket

Entry/Object ID

CW 762

Description

Jacket. Child's jacket; approximately size 3; black velvet; braid and satin-button trimmed. Good condition. Circa 1889. Worn by Edwin James Johnson of Philadelphia. (jacket would have been worn with a kilt) Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Worn by Edwin James Johnson of Philadelphia, son of Joshua R. and Alice James Johnson, about 1889 or 1890. 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.