Lettie Dent portraying Margaret Brent and friends

Photograph

St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Lettie Dent as Margaret Brent

Name/Title

Lettie Dent portraying Margaret Brent and friends

Entry/Object ID

1991.001.0015

Description

This is an 8"h x 10"w sepia tone photo of Lettie Dent as Margaret Brent for the 1934 Tercentenary of Maryland pageant. She was standing in front of the portico at Tudor Hall. She had on some kind of soft oversize beret with a large white feather that laid across her brow. Her dress was a dark velvet with a wide neck, a weskit effect, squared panels on a peplum, and a white underskirt. There were white puffy sleeves on the garment. There were three? rows of what looked like rick-rack around the neck, in a chevron effect on the weskit and the underskirt, and down the front edge of the overgarment and around its hem. She was holding the skirt of the dress away from her body as if preparing to curtsey. She had a piece of dark jewelry on a chain around her neck. Six women, three on a side, formed lines and were curtseying to Ms. Brent. These women each wore a white caps and wore white short sleeved blouses, vests, except one, dirndl skirts and white aprons. The outfits looked vaguely German or Swiss. This was probably a publicity photo for the Tercentenary. ************************************************* Text on verso: copy 1 in pencil on a sheet of paper "Mistress Margaret Brent portrayed by Lettie Dent year=1934 Others? Tudor Hall"

Collection

Dent Family Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1934

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Print Size: 8" x 10"

Location

Container

Dent Family Collection Box 11

Shelf

Rack 02, Shelf 2

Rack

Rack 02

Wall

South wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall