Cardboard dress chart, one for "back" and the other "neck" with manufacturered information.
patterns (guides)
dresses (garments)
cardboard
transfer printing
Pattern
Pattern, Clothes
Pattern, Clothes
Printed, ""The Union Dress Chart. _____, Mass. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office in the District Court of Mass., April, 1862."" Paper label located on top of printed inscription, hand written, ""T. Thale, North ....""
Unknown
11 x 13 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Richard and Jane Nylander
1992.182
Massachusetts (United States)
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