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Clothing and Accessories
Bonnet
Unidentified, (active )
Unidentified
Primary
9 1/8 in. x 12 1/8 in.
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cotton
cotton
1840-1850
1840
1850
Personal Artifact, Nomenclature
Clothing and Accessories
A white gauze bonnet lined in black net. It has a bow at the nape of the neck. The folds in the brim are separated by pieces of overlapping netting. In the 1840s, bonnets with black lining were worn by widowed women.
1982.13
item
Florence Griswold Museum
11/8/1999