Infant's Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 790

Description

Dress. Infant's dress. Off-white cotton (very brown). Fitted bodice; set-in sleeves; gathering at neck and waist at center back. Embroidered strips on sleeves; center front bodice panel and waist. Made for Edwin D. Smyth. Good condition, but stained. Circa 1869. The donor, Emily Smyth Cooper, was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey who married Edwin James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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.