Infant's Shirt

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Shirt

Entry/Object ID

CW 769 b

Description

Infant's Shirt. White linen; center back opening; no fastenings; Shirt body, sleeves, and sleeve flaps were cut in one piece from a square of cloth. Lace on sleeve edges. Shirt was made in 1869 by Emily Betts Smyth (b. 1823-) for her youngest child, Edward Betts Smyth. Good condition. 1848. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Shirt was made in 1869 by Emily Betts Smyth (b. 1823-) for her youngest child, Edward Betts Smyth. 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.