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Culture:American
Title:dress
Date Made:ca. 1810
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: mull
Place Made:United States
Measurements:overall: 60 in.; 152.4 cm
Accession Number:  HD 86.106
Credit Line:Gift in Memory of Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
White mull dress in the Empire style with an overall floral design worked in heavy cotton embroidery and short sleeves, which descended in the Pomeroy family of Belmont and the Coolidge family of Cambridge, Massachusetts. There a note in ink in the file: "The white muslin came from a Pomeroy family in Belmont was said to be 100 years when given to mother surely more than 150 now. I wore it once to something I think over a silk. Given by Abbie D. Coolidge." Abbie Dana Coolidge (b. 1848) was the daughter of Joseph Grafton Coolidge (b. 1820) and Emily Griggs Coolidge (b. 1822).

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