1885-1886
GUSN-258040
A) Ivory-colored silk wedding gown; foundation of rep-weave silk; overskirt and sleeves silk damask weave; bodice and end of 3/4 length sleeves adorned with silk floral lace; bodice corsetted and has thirteen hook and eye closures and two snaps on top; skirt with silk, rep-weave pleats and lace trimming and is part of the underskirt; silk lining; B) lace veil.
wedding dresses
silk (textile)
lace (needlework)
Gown, Wedding
"M MC Murray/ 145 Hancock St./ Cambridgeport Mass." (on twill tape)
"301"
Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot, b. 1836
Flavin, Elizabeth M.
Unknown
Gift of Elizabeth Flavin
1998.11AB
1885-1886 (worn 1923; 1952)
Cambridgeport (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
United States
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