Infant's Stockings

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Infant's Stockings

Entry/Object ID

CW 796 a-d

Description

Stockings. Two pairs of infant's stockings; both off-white; cotton; hand-knit; CW 796 a-b (pair one); CW 796 c-d (pair two). Simple ribbed pattern on leg portion; stretched-out at top; one stocking of pair one darned at heel. Stockings were made for Edward B. Smyth, son of Emily Betts Smyth (Canby) and William Canby. Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson) was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey at her marriage to 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.