Man's Coat

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Man's Coat

Entry/Object ID

CW 662

Description

Coat. Man's twilled cotton coat; brown; knee length; brown covered buttons and simulated button holes but fastened with hooks and eyes. Badly torn in back and around armholes. Repairs elsewhere. Worn by Joseph Johnson in 1790. Coat was shown in the Costume Museum from may 1969 to December 1960. Pattern and photographs in Rural Pennsylvania Clothing by Ellen J. Gehret, pp. 133-145. See also: Historic Dress in America by Elisabeth McClellan, Figure 312 (with breeches #663 and vest #664). Given with vest (CW 664) and Breeches (CW 663). Transcribed from original accession record

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Worn by Joseph Johnson in 1790. Coat was shown in the Costume Museum from may 1969 to December 1960. See illustration in Historic Dress in America by, Elisabeth McClellan, page 241, figures 212 and 213. Note inside coat: "Joseph Johnson / 1790,"