Description:
Man’s square cut, white linen shirt featuring a standing collar, mother-of-pearl buttons, and the initials “EP” [Elisha Porter] embroidered in cross stitch in light brown silk floss at proper left side near gusset. Made from imported linen (English or perhaps Dutch), the garment was constructed in America. With a history of ownership to the family of Elisha Porter (1742-1796) of Hadley, Massachusetts, it is an important example of late 18th-or early 19th-century man's undergarment owned and worn in the Connecticut River Valley.

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