Woman's Dress

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 266

Description

Dress. Woman's dress; brown and blue striped taffeta; completely lined in tan chintz. Hand stitched, long shoulder line; corded seams; full pleated skirt fastened to Basque-type boned waist; open in front; leg of mutton sleeves trimmed in brown braid. Fair condition; mended under arm. Circa 1850. Transcribed from Original Accession Record

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Material

Silk taffeta, chintz; bone stays, braid

Provenance

Notes

"William Booth married Elizabeth M. Broomall in 1841. Their son, George M. Booth, was born in 1851 and married Ellen Miller, daughter of Lewis and Ann McIlvaine Miller in 1876. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin Booth, married Robert Emerson Lamb of Baltimore in 1908 at Chester, Pa. The collection contains correspondence (1821-1963), diaries and journals (1833-1905), albums, legal and financial papers, photographs, genealogical and biographical materials, and miscellaneous memorabilia of the Lamb, Booth, Miller, and related families primarily of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. "Robert E. and Elizabeth B. Lamb, James G. Lamb, 1917 - 1963, and others. (Source: An Inventory of the Lamb-Booth-Miller Family Papers, 1709-1959: Friends Historical Society, Swarthmore College)