Wedding Gown

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1910

Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1910

Name/Title

Wedding Gown

Entry/Object ID

CW 829

Description

Gown, Wedding. Wedding Gown; cream satin trimmed with stitching. Good condition. Worn by Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) at her marriage to Huger Elliott in 1911. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Elizabeth Shippen Green was a prominent Philadelphia artist , magazine illustrator, and illustrator of children's books. "Green became close and lifelong friends with fellow prominent artists: Violet Oakley and Jessie Wilcox Smith. They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn (they were called the Red Rose girls by Howard Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home on St. George's Road in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. "In 1911, at the age of forty, Green married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, after a five-year engagement, and moved away from Cogslea. Green continued to work through the 1920s and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband. Green died May 29, 1954." (Source: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Shippen_Green)