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A small shallow bonnet covered with pleated "crinkled" black crepe and ruffled crepe at the brim. It ties with a wide black grosgrain ribbon, and is lined with black silk taffeta. It is a mourning bonnet.
bonnets (hats)
headgear
crepe (textile)
cloth
taffeta
Crepe
Taffeta
Grosgrain
BONNET
A grosgrain shop label on the back of the bonnet reads: Marcella/Norfolk, Conn.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8.5 x 7 x 3.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.473
Connecticut (United States)
Title Bandbox Accession Number 1991.472B
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