Woman's Dress

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 3647 a-b

Description

Dress. Womans two-piece dress; black net over black taffeta; trimmed with black lace and velvet. Label: "Geo, C. Leupold N.E. cor. 16th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia." Wearer tag sewn inside: "Mrs. A. J. Huston." Circa 1900. CW 3647 a Bodice CW 3647 b Skirt Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Material

Taffeta; net; velvet; lace

Provenance

Notes

Owner: Wearer tag: Mrs. A.J. Huston "Geo, C. Leupold N.E. cor. 16th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia." An advertisement for the ladies' dressmaker appears in Boyd's Blue Book: a directory of selected streets from Philadelphia, 1906. https://books.google.com/books?id=PwICAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA994&lpg=PA994&dq=Geo,+C.+Leupold+Chestnut+street&source=bl&ots=34hL8i59Zg&sig=cTgeUARklt2MJOHZFqTocDjCxJk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL0a2i6tvdAhUizlkKHYMOAsEQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Geo%2C%20C.%20Leupold%20Chestnut%20street&f=false