Name/Title
Woman's Net ShawlEntry/Object ID
CW 4591Description
Shawl. Woman's shawl; long and narrow mesh rectangle; black net with gold metallic pieces punched onto mesh to form a geometric pattern; white silk lining hand-stitched at a later date onto original shawl. Dimensions: 85-inches long; 22-inches wide. Excellent condition. No date given.
Shawl belonged to Mrs. Wood's grandmother, Mrs. Henry Brown of Germantown.
Transcribed from Original Accession Record.Collection
Germantown Historical Society ObjectsMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Germantown, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDimensions
Width
22 inLength
85 inDimension Notes
Details: Dimensions: 85-inches long; 22-inches wide.Material
Net; silk, gold metallic piecesRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Brown, Mrs. Henry; Dr. & Mrs Horatio Curtis WoodProvenance
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)
