Name/Title
Lady's HandkerchiefEntry/Object ID
CW 797Description
Handkerchief. Lady's large white linen handkerchief; motif of two birds; name: "M. Betts" at bottom. Circa 1818 Handkerchief belonged to Mary Seal Betts, wife of Mahon Betts and daughter of Lydia and Joshua Seal of Wilmington Delaware.
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 ObjectsMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Wilmington, DelawareProvenance
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.