Woman's Cummerbund

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Cummerbund

Entry/Object ID

Cw 4257

Description

Belt. Woman's white silk cummerbund made of two white ribbons boned in five places; 3 hooks and eyes at closure. Unknown date. No condition given. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Fallsington, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Material

Ribbons; corset stays (bones); metal hooks and eyes

Provenance

Notes

Clarkson-Watson Collection Headley Collection "The Headley family was a prominent and socially-active family from Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Headley family papers, circa 1788- 1981, document several generations of the Headley family and related family members, particularly the family of Charles Moon Headley (b. 1865) and Elizabeth Schurz Headley (b. 1871), including their daughters Alice Headley Woodruff (1894-1989) and Eleanor Christina Headley (b. 1897). " (Source: University of Pennsylvania Library: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/cocoon/dla/pacscl/ead.pdf?id=PACSCL_HSP_HF01)