Description: Triangular-shaped black silk taffeta cape edged with 6 1/2" machine-made lace attached under a gimp braid. The neck edge is trimed with the same braid. The cape was a gift of Parker Dole Hubbard (1919-1994), son of George Caleb Hubbard (b.1878) and Florence Graves Hubbard, grandson of Parker Dole Hubbard (1825-1895) and Elizabeth Newton Hubbard (1842-1915), great-grandson of Ashley Hubbard and Betsey Dole Hubbard (1794-1862), and great-great grandson of Caleb Hubbard (1754-1850) and Lucretia Ashley Hubbard (1767-1853) of the Plumtrees section of Sunderland, Mass. The box in which the dress and shawl were housed when they came to the museum was labeled "BENJAMIN SIDE TEL. CONN./ B & R Dress Co./ MANUFACTURERS OF COATS AND DRESSES/ WEST BROOKFIELD, MASS./ Branch - 18 Center Street., Northampton, Mass."
Subjects: Textile fabrics Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+89.080 |