Dress

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 4344

Description

Woman’s dress. Black satin. Bands of embroidery and lace insertions around bodice and skirt. White satin stomacher with beading up center. Sash around waist. Long sleeves trimmed with embroidery and lace. Standing collar in back. Beaded tassels on bodice and at ends of sleeves.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Date made

1918 - 1920

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Notes

Creation Date: Circa 1918

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Waist: 37 in Bust: 38 in Shoulders: 18 in Length: 54 in

Material

Satin; lace; beads

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Wistar, Elizabeth [Buckley] Morris (1801-1863)

Person or Organization

Wood, Dr. & Mrs. Horatio Curtis

Provenance

Notes

Worn by Elizabeth [Buckley] Morris Wistar (1801-1863). "The Wood family tree...has included altogether fourteen respected men of medicine since the eighteenth century. The handing on of the name Horatio Curtis Wood has reached a sort of impasse in various branches; there now being a Dr. Horatio C. Wood Jr. (Pennsylvania '97), a Dr. Horatio C. Wood IV (Haverford '50) and a Mr. Curtis Wood (Yale '54)." (Source: The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy, page 109, By Nathaniel Burt)