Dress, Wedding
Object number2017.41.1
Date1911
MediumCotton; Lace; Metal
Credit LineGift of Phyllis Tomko
DescriptionOff-white floor length cotton wedding dress. Square high neckline with lace trim. Half-length sleeves with fabric balls around bottom edge. High waist. Dress is diaphanous off-white netted fabric. Bodice is lace with lace continuing over shoulders; shoulder lace sections have fabric balls along bottom edge. Skirt has four sets of three vertical pleats. Bottom of skirt is tiered with three rows of diaphanous off-white netted fabric and one wider band of lace with fabric balls along bottom edge of lace section. Fourteen hook-and-eye fasteners down back opening.DimensionsHeight x Width (Width is at waist): 55.875 × 11.25 in. (141.9 × 28.6 cm)Historical NotesFrancis Zoglmann wore this dress to her wedding in 1911 when she married Mathias Lorson. Francis came to Pittsburgh in 1899, at the age of 15 after her mother Barbara died. Her brother Wolfgang had come to Pittsburgh in 1893, and opened Zoglmann’s Saloon at 601 Carson Street. The Zoglmann’s had a brother Anton who stayed in Germany. Francis worked at her brother’s business and the family lived above. She met her future husband, Mathias Lorson, who was employed at A.M. Byers, when he would come in to the bar to cash his checks. Francis and Mathias were married in 1911. They had four children, but Mathias died of a brain tumor when their oldest child was 18. According to donor Phyllis Tomko, Francis worked on and off at the bar into her old age, she remembers her going in on Tuesdays to clean.
Previous owner
Francis Zoglmann Lorson
Related person
Mathias Lorson
(1880 - 1931)
Related person
Wolfgang Zoglmann
Related institution
Zoglmann's Barroom Hotel
Related institution
A.M. Byers
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