Infant's Shirt

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Shirt

Entry/Object ID

CW 767

Description

Shirt . Infant's shirt. Fine white linen; center back opening; no fasteners; set-in sleeves with self-fabric ruffles at hem; collar flaps cut in one with the body of the shirt. Fair condition. Circa 1820. Shirt was made by Mary Seal Betts for one of her children. She married Mahlon Betts of Wilmington, Delaware, in 1818. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1818

Place

* Untyped Place

Wilmington, Delaware

Provenance

Notes

Shirt was made by Mary Seal Betts for one of her children. She married Mahlon Betts of Wilmington, Delaware, in 1818. 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.