Wedding Gown

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Wedding Gown

Entry/Object ID

CW 654

Description

Gown, wedding. Wedding Gown. Silk wedding gown brought from Lyons [France] in 1731. Cream silk; embroidered in colors. Worn by: Mary Bowler Lynde (1731) Esther Olivia Shaffer (1876) Anne Webb (1890). Transcribed from original accession record Gown is in box with slippers, mitts, satin bag, comb, two scarves (now CW 2023).

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Lyons, France

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Lynde, Mary Bowler (1731), Esther Olivia Shaffer (1876) and Anne Webb (1890)

Provenance

Notes

Worn by: Mary Bowler Lynde (1731) Esther Olivia Shaffer (1876) Anne Webb (1890).