Dress, Wedding
Object number2013.117.1
Date1857
MediumSilk/Metal/Cotton
Credit LineGift of Rebecca A. Farrar
DescriptionSilk wedding dress, pattern of brown, dark brown, and dark gold horizontal stripes throughout. Fifteen hooks, thirteen loops on front of bodice. Thirteen decorative brown buttons down proper right front of chest, twenty on proper left. Quarter-length, full sleeves; two-tier layout, each bottom edge lined with brown cotton fringe and red velvet. Beige cotton embroidered collar. Pocket in proper right skirt.Dimensions58 x 18 in. (147.3 x 45.7 cm)Historical NotesWedding dress worn by Margaret Ann McBride's in her 1857 wedding to James Taggart, both of Canton Township, Washington County. Related to the Farrar and Hamilton family collection.
Previous owner
Margaret Ann McBride Taggart
(1834 - 1911)
Related person
James Taggart
(1824 - 1892)
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