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Floral red silk damask remnant from the wedding dress of Mary Page. Framed in an oval wood splint frame.
textiles
textiles
silk (textile)
damask
marriage
wedding dresses
Unidentified Textile
Cloth Fragment
"A piece of Mary Page's wedding dress, when/she married Nathan Reed of Lexington in 1772./ She lived in Bedford Mass./ His vest and her dress were of this Red Damask,/ while his suit and her slippers were made of/ white Broadcloth." (handwritten)
Unknown
7 1/4 x 10 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Charlotte Brayton
1977.134
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