Woman's Woolen scarf

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Woolen scarf

Entry/Object ID

CW 4578

Description

Scarf. Woman's scarf; natural wool; square; off-white; loosely knit, deliberate pattern of holes around edge on all sides. Excellent condition. Circa 1860. Paper pinned to scarf: "Shawls [Scarf] worn by Elizabeth [Buckly Morris] Wistar (1849-1925) and Annabella [Cresson Wistar] Wood (1872-1967)." Curator note: "Shawls is plural in note but only one was found in the box." Transcribed from Original Accession Record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Material

Wool

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Wood, Dr. and Mrs. Horatio Curtis

Person or Organization

Wistar, Elizabeth Buckly Morris

Person or Organization

Wood, Annabella [Cresson Wistar]

Provenance

Notes

Owner: Elizabeth Buckly Morris Wistar & Annabella [Cresson Wistar] Wood Paper pinned to scarf: "Shawls [Scarf] worn by Elizabeth [Buckly Morris] Wistar [1849-1925] and Annabella [Cresson Wistar] Wood [1872-1967]." Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Curator note: "Shawls is plural in note but only one was found in the box." "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)