Wedding Dress

Unknown American, American

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1864-1868

White organdy and linen

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Chandler H. Foster, Class of 1915

47.16.16724

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Clothing: Outerwear

Research Area

Textiles and Costumes

Not on view

Exhibition History

Crinoline Dresses of the 1860s, Rotunda, Hopkins Center, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January-March 1985.

Dressed in White: Bridal Dresses from the Williams Costume Collection, Friends and Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 23-June 26, 1988.

Women's Clothing and Accessories: 1800-1930, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss, Barrows and Rotunda Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7,1979-January 27, 1980.

Provenance

Chandler Hunting Foster (Class of 1915, 1893-1979), North Andover, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1946.

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