Name/Title
Frame. Dress Cutting DiplomaEntry/Object ID
2011.007.001Description
Large diploma, beige [may originally have been white] paper, printed in gold, black and white.
Text of diploma reads in part: "Plant's Dress Cutting Academy/Diploma/
[three central oval-framed photographs of the male principal teachers at the Academy, with (on viewer's left) a gold-printed illustration of several slopers (patterns) used in the dress cutting system ) and below this a block of text in French giving an address in Trois-Riverieres for Canadian correspondents, and, (on viewer's right) a gold illustration of a medal from the Academy//New Systems of Cutting Garments/
This is to Certify that Miss Florida Roux …. To the month of July 1905 ….. Able to takes measures, cut and fit Ladies' and Children's Garments of all descriptions/[handwritten]Teaching by Madame Joseph Landry. Signed Prof. J. N. LeMire".
Embossed gold seal, securing a piece of dark red silk ribbon and light blue silk ribbon, in lower left corner corner reads: "Dress/Cutting/System" in centre, with "Prof. J.N. LeMire Company Biddeford, ME" forming outer border.
Diploma has outer gold border with star decoration and inner gold wavy border. Wooden Frame is highlighted with shadows of leaves on lower left corner.
*****Attached to the protective plastic covering is a handwritten note reading: "L.F. Roux/is Mrs/Lothaire/La------( possibly LaBlanc or LaPlante or ??)*****? missingAcquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Tonkin, RobertNotes
Accession Date: 21-Sep-11
Mode of Acquisition: giftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term
DiplomaNomenclature Secondary Object Term
Certificate, AchievementNomenclature Primary Object Term
AwardNomenclature Sub-Class
Achievement SymbolsNomenclature Class
Personal SymbolsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
dress cutting diplomaCreated By
Atkins, Anne; Jones, IsabelCreate Date
November 2, 2011Update Date
February 25, 2026