Child's Slip

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Child's Slip

Entry/Object ID

CW 2753

Description

Underskirt. Child's underskirt or half-slip; white linen; full skirt sewn to wide belly band; three lines of cut work near hem. Worn by the donor's husband Thomas Philip Haviland, circa 1897. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Material

Linen

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)