Under Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Under Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 859

Description

Shift; undergarment shift; white linen; fine tucks and embroidery. Sewn inside on name tape: "Carpenter." Circa 1890. No condition given. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Carpenter, Mrs. George W. and Ellen Douglas Carpenter

Provenance

Notes

Sewn inside on name tape: "Carpenter." The donor's husband, George Washington Carpenter (1802-1860), was a scientist and the builder of Phil-Elena in Germantown.