Infant's Shirt

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Shirt

Entry/Object ID

CW 766 a-b

Description

Shirts. Two infant's shirts; off-white linen. CW 766 a Infant's shirt. Off-white fine linen; square neckline; set-in sleeves that are rectangular in shape; self ruffles on sleeves; sleeves have two fine tucks. Fair condition. Circa 1820. CW 766b Infant's shirt. Off-wite homespun linen; curved neckline; no trim. Fair condition. Circa 1820. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1820

Place

* Untyped Place

Wilmington, Delaware

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.