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Dress, Child'sEntry/Object ID
51.90.4Description
Yellow Nylon Print Child's Dress. Material: textile, plastic. Size: 12 1/2" W. x 22 3/4" L. Description: yellow and green nylon floral print with a rounded neckline; sleeveless ruffled armholes; yellow feather stitching around neckline, armholes and the two front bodice vertical ruffles; waistline ties attached at each front side and are held in place by a short vertical ruffle; closure with back waistline ties and four yellow buttons and buttonholes in back neckline placket.Context
Dress sewn by Mildred Appelonia (Fertig) Hartig, grandmother to donor. Beth Mary (Parkyn) Clemons wore these dresses in the 1960s when she was a small child living in Waterville, LeSueur County, Minnesota. Donor’s grandmother was 73 years old and lived with her daughter and son-in-law Florence and Vern Ellingson in Mill Valley, Marin, California.
Mildred was born 8 July 1886 in Arcadia, Trempealeau, Wisconsin to Joh Martin Fertig, a purebred German from Watterbach, Bavaria, Germany and Mary Gasal, a purebred Swiss from Sauk, Sauk, Wisconsin, both pioneer families that settled in the region. Mildred taught school in Miles City, Custer, Montana where she met and married John Frederick Hartig.Cataloged By
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Dress, Child'sClass
Clothing, OuterwearCategory
Personal ArtifactsCreate Date
March 19, 1992Update Date
November 21, 2024