Dress

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 2760

Description

Dress. Child's dress; sheer white organdy; bodice and full short skirt gathered to low waist band; long sleeves; yoke and shoulder ruffle; lace insets at yoke and at hem. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Material

Organdy; lace

Provenance

Notes

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)