Name/Title
Wedding StockingsEntry/Object ID
CW 792 a-bDescription
Stockings. White silk wedding stockings worn by Emily Betts who married William Canby Smyth in 1847. No condition given.
Stockings. White silk wedding stockings worn by Emily Betts who married William Canby Smyth in 1847.
Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson) was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey at her marriage to James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915.
Transcribed from original accession record.
Transcribed from original accession record.Collection
Germantown Historical Society ObjectsMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProvenance
Notes
Worn by Emily Betts who married William Canby Smyth in 1847.
Photo Source: Ancestry.com.
Wedding stockings were also worn by Emily Betts Smyth's daughters;
Anna Canby who married Nathaniel E. Janney in 1877;
Frances Canby who married James Howard Chambers in 1888.
The donor, Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson), was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey, who married James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915. Emily Smyth Cooper Johnson was a 1907 graduate of Bryn Mawr College. From 1911 to 1919 she served ad Chairman of Trustees of Camden Friends' School.