Stockings

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Vermont Historical Society

framed socks

Name/Title

Stockings

Entry/Object ID

1958.1.1180

Description

Two knit silk stockings or socks framed with a copy of a daguerreotype. The stockings are knitted in the round and shaped at the heel. They flare toward the top opening, and both roll down slightly at the top.

Context

Made by Sarah Hager from the silk of worms she raised herself in Reading, VT

Acquisition

Accession

1958.1

Source or Donor

Rugg, Harold Goddard (1883-1957)

Acquisition Method

Bequest

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Socks

Textile Details

Material

Silk

Notes

knit

Made/Created

Artist

Hager, Sarah Augusta Goddard (1828-1910)

Time Period

19th Century

Place

Town

Reading

County

Windsor County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Sock

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Hosiery

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Footwear

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects