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Dress Chart

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1862

GUSN

GUSN-11243

Description

Cardboard dress chart, one for "back" and the other "neck" with manufacturered information.

Details

Descriptive Terms

patterns (guides)
dresses (garments)
cardboard
transfer printing
Pattern
Pattern, Clothes
Pattern, Clothes

Inscription

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 ....""

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11 x 13 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Jane Nylander

Accession Number

1992.182

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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