Infant's Shirt

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Shirt

Entry/Object ID

CW 768

Description

Shirt . Infant's shirt. Fine off-white linen. Shirt body, sleeves, sleeve flaps, and collar flaps cut in one piece from a square of cloth. Fine lace on sleeves. Center back opening; no fastenings. Shirt was made by Emily Betts Smyth in 1848. Good condition. 1848. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1848

Notes

Made by Emily B. Smyth.

Provenance

Notes

Shirt was made in 1848 by Emily Betts Smyth (b. 1823-). 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.