Woman's Chiffon Shawl

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Woman's Silk Chiffon Shawl

Woman's Silk Chiffon Shawl

Name/Title

Woman's Chiffon Shawl

Entry/Object ID

CW 4592

Description

Shawl. Woman's shawl. Rectangular; gray-green and black chiffon shawl, printed floral border with diamond shapes in the corners; machine-hemmed on four sides; handkerchief roll. Dimensions: 63-inches long; 34-inches wide. Fair condition - tears. Unknown date.. This shawl belonged to Mrs. Wood's grandmother, Mrs. Henry Brown of Germantown. Transcribed from Original Accession Record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dimensions

Width

34 in

Length

63 in

Dimension Notes

Details: Dimensions: 63-inches long; 34-inches wide.

Material

Silk chiffon

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Brown, Mrs. Henry; Dr. & Mrs Horatio Curtis Wood

Provenance

Notes

Owner: Mrs. Henry Brown "The Wood family tree...has included altogether fourteen respected men of medicine since the eighteenth century. The handing on of the name Horatio Curtis Wood has reached a sort of impasse in various branches; there now being a Dr. Horatio C. Wood Jr. (Pennsylvania '97), a Dr. Horatio C. Wood IV (Haverford '50) and a Mr. Curtis Wood (Yale '54)." (Source: The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy, page 109, By Nathaniel Burt)