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Mary Harrison McKee’s Inaugural Gown,1889. Mary McKee wore this elaborate Victorian gown to her father’s inaugural ball in 1889. In accordance with President Benjamin Harrison’s economic philosophy of supporting home-based manufacturing, the gown was intentionally all-American. Indiana artist Mary Williamson designed the fabric pattern, and the Logan Silk Co. of Auburn, NY, wove the brocaded fabric. The fabric of the gown incorporates a pattern of goldenrod, President Harrison’s favorite flower.
(Source: historywired.si.edu )
‘Bearing the palm.’
Fashion for late spring,
Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1886.
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ca. 1890’s, [tintype portrait of three women and two men, one poking his head out from behind a photographer’s light screens]
via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma1d1etGj31qa51rdo1_400.jpg)
ca. 1890’s, [tintype portrait of three women and two men, one poking his head out from behind a photographer’s light screens]
via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34
Cooley’s Cork Corset, a circa 1870s/1880s “metamorphic” trade card wherein the before-and-after panels are achieved by folding down part of the card to reveal a second image.
Madrazo y Kuntz. Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Condesa de Vilches, 1853.
Kittyinva: The Condessa has the sweetest expression on her face. I hope she was as nice in real life as she seems here.
Carved Ivory and Diamond Calla Lily Pendant Earrings, circa 1880s
