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Long; off-white; open neckline with embroidered pointed panel at front and points on short puffed sleeves; eyelet waistband; hem embroidered with stylized flowers like bodice; scalloped and embroidered hem; net inserts.
dresses (garments)
cotton (textile)
embroidering
Dress
Dress
Handwritten note sewn onto center front (removed--see file): ""#1 Exhibiter--Cynthia Grace Austin. Handmade baby dress embroidered by a relative in Salem, Massachusetts and sent to Permambuco, Brazil for Gideon Tucker Mansfield, when he was a baby. Born March 12, 1829.""
B2944
Unknown
Museum Accession
1988.394
Massachusetts (United States)
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