Wedding Ensemble

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Wedding Ensemble

Entry/Object ID

CW 285 a-d

Description

Wedding Ensemble: Worn by Ellen Miller at her marriage to George Martin Booth, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1876. CW 254 a: Wedding Gown. White organdy; Basque-type waist; laced in back; elaborately puffed skirt. CW 285 b: Wedding shawl. White silk shawl with knotted silk fringe. CW 285 c: Wedding Slippers. CW 285 d: Silk Stockings. All Good condition. 1876 Transcribed from Original Accession Record

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Material

Silk organdy; silk

Provenance

Notes

"William Booth married Elizabeth M. Broomall in 1841. Their son, George M. Booth, was born in 1851 and married Ellen Miller, daughter of Lewis and Ann McIlvaine Miller in 1876. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin Booth, married Robert Emerson Lamb of Baltimore in 1908 at Chester, Pa. The collection contains correspondence (1821-1963), diaries and journals (1833-1905), albums, legal and financial papers, photographs, genealogical and biographical materials, and miscellaneous memorabilia of the Lamb, Booth, Miller, and related families primarily of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. "Robert E. and Elizabeth B. Lamb, James G. Lamb, 1917 - 1963, and others. (Source: An Inventory of the Lamb-Booth-Miller Family Papers, 1709-1959: Friends Historical Society, Swarthmore College)