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Dress

Object number2016.44.8

Datec. 1900

MediumFabric; Silk; Glass(?); Metal; Unknown boning material

Credit LineGift of Susan Haas Prentiss

DescriptionGreen and cream silk dress. Floor-length. Bodice is cream lace with floral and curvilinear embroidery and a butterfly/moth shape in beads, pearls, and rhistones on chest. Gauzy sheer green fabric hangs over shoulders and down back ending at two points with tassels of colorless glass(?) beads. Skirt and banded waistband are cream silk with flower applique on proper left front of skirt and rouched area on proper left reverse of skirt.DimensionsHeight x Width: 56 × 16 in. (142.2 × 40.6 cm)
InscriptionsHandwritten number in ink on interior of waistband at proper left end "1479".
Historical NotesThe two c. 1900 gowns belonged to Effie’s daughter Marie Ash, she eventually married James Dalbey, a local portrait painter. Part of a collection of clothing and accessories of the Ash/Haas family. George Haas had a wholesale optical business on Oliver Street called G.W. Optical, it folded when he passed in 1968. It was started by his father George Washington Haas. His grandfather Jesse Purdy started American Waterworks with Mellon backing, they built dams all over the world.

Previous owner Marie Ash Dalbey

Related person James Mills Dalbey

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