Quaker Wedding Gown

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Quaker Wedding Gown

Entry/Object ID

CW 559

Description

Wedding Gown. Ivory silk poplin; satin front on jacket-type waist; trimmed with satin quilling and lace; 3/4 length sleeves similarly trimmed; full skirt gathered at waist; ending in a small train. Worn by the donor's mother, Mary Anne Hancock (9/25/1848 to 12/22/1886), at her marriage to Charles Austin Dixon, October 25, 1869. Very good condition. 1869. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Worn by the donor's mother, Mary Anne Hancock (9/25/1848 to 12/22/1886), at her marriage to Charles Austin Dixon, October 25, 1869. Charles Austin Dixon (1849-1902) was a member of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. (Source: Friends' Intelligencer, Volume 59; Google Books) The donor, Mrs. George Wooley Lukens, is the former Susanna Hancock Dixon. George Wooley Lukens and Susanna Hancock Dixon were married June 14, 1899 at the Friends Meeting, 219 West Coulter Street, Germantown.