stockings
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1832-1894
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- Object Number A-1795 a-b
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- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, footwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1832/01/01
- Latest 1894/12/31
- Materials Silkworm silk
- Person / Institution Associated party, Shepherd, Jane RoyAssociated party, Wells, IsabellaAssociated party, Bertholf, Cordelia
- Measurements Length 68.6 cm, Width 11.0 cm, Thickness 0.3 cm
- Caption Comments on these stockings from the Shepherd family
- Additional Information One pair of knee-length rosy-beige silk stockings; have eyelets and somewhat geometrical patterns at their insteps and ankles. They were worn by Jane Roy Shepherd at her marriage in 1832, by her daughter Isabella Shepherd Wells in 1858, and her granddaughter Cora Wells Bertholf in 1894.