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Culture:American
Title:bonnet
Date Made:1860-1865
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: white silk flowers; white lace ribbon; white tulle
Place Made:United States; Connecticut; Farmington
Measurements:Overall: 16 in x 8 in x 5 in; 40.6 cm x 20.3 cm x 12.7 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2016.8.3
Credit Line:Gift of Pearl Hawley Edwards in memory of the Hawley family of West Hartford, Connecticut, and the Edwards Family of Boston
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Woman’s bonnet which illustrates the kinds of fashionable headwear worn by women in the Connecticut River valley in the 1860s. This example is shaped with wire, lined with gridded plastic like material. Decorated with white artificial (silk?) flowers, off-white pleated tulle, and lace bands. Bonnet fastens with two cream-colored silk ribbons each 1 1/8” wide. Worn by a member of the Hawley family of Farmington and West Hartford, Connecticut. H: 3.5” (16” with lace ribbons).

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