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| Titles |
Wedding dress |
|---|---|
| Description |
Two-piece wedding dress worn by Abby Newell at her wedding to Arthur H. Mills held at Fort Snelling on October 24, 1857. Both jacket and dress are of blue taffeta with black brocade trim. The jacket (.A) has horizontal bands of black brocade across the front and black and brown fringes along the waist and cuffs. Five blue silk flower shaped buttons fringed with black beads and blue silk balls adorn the front, with two on each sleeve. The skirt (.B) is adorned with black brocade in a floral design. Hand sewn and fully lined. |
| Quantity |
2 items |
| Format |
Content Category: artifacts |
| Measurements |
31 inches length (9114.A, jacket) 15 inches width (9114.A, jacket) 46 inches length (9114.B, skirt) 8 1/2 inches width (9114.B, skirt, at waist) 33 inches width (9114.B, skirt, at bottom edge) |
| Nomenclature |
wedding dress |
| Materials |
taffeta brocade (textile) bead (pierced object) |
| Subjects |
Used by: Mills, Abby Newell Used in: Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States Weddings Clothing. Women's Special Purpose Clothing. Wedding Clothing Clothing. Women's Dresses. 1800-1850s |
| Dates |
Creation: Exactly 1857 (Abby Newell Mills was married 10/24/1857 in New Haven, Connecticut (see "Personal recollections of Minnesota and its people, and early history of Minneapolis" John H. Stevenson),) |
| Notes |
A three-dimensional model, in pdf file format, is available for this object. |
| Credit Line |
Minnesota Historical Society Collections |
| Holding Type | 3D Objects |
| Identifiers |
9114.A,B (Accession Number) |
Glad to see this item on the MHS website. Thanks! I had heard that there were not open sleeves of this sort in the 1860s. But hey, here they are!
Whoops! Make that "had heard that there were not open sleeves of this sort in _1850s_"