Garter

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Garter

Entry/Object ID

CW 793

Description

Garter. Knitted garter; white with initials and date worked in. Circa 1818. No condition given. Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson) was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey at her marriage to James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Camden, New Jersey

Provenance

Notes

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.