Culture: | textile: English; garment: American
| Title: | waistcoat
| Date Made: | 1790-1796
| Type: | Clothing
| Materials: | textile: buff-colored, twill-weave woolen (cassimere, say, or buckskin); light yellow cotton or linen/cotton; silver gilt buttons
| Place Made: | textile: United Kingdom; Great Britain: England; garment: United States; Massachusetts; Hadley
| Measurements: | Center Back - CB: 20 7/8 in; 53 cm
| Accession Number: | HD 2017.30.6
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Cooley Family, Hartford, Connecticut, direct descendants of Col. Elisha Porter
| Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description: Man’s double-breasted waistcoat featuring a standing collar, straight hem ending just below the waistline, and two welt pockets. The waistcoat secures down the front with pewter(?) buttons and corresponding worked buttonholes on both sides. Part of a military uniform worn by Colonel Elisha Porter (1742-1796) of Hadley, Massachusetts, it is an important example of late 18th-century officer's uniform owned and worn in the Connecticut River Valley. This waistcoat is slighlty smaller in size, suggesting an earlier uniform waistcoat for Porter, whose later, single breasted one (2017.30.5) survives with a matching pair of breeches (2017.30.4) in Historic Deerfield's collection.
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