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title: Blue Print Infant Dress

subject: Children's apparel

subject: Burpee, Edwin E., 1819-1823

description: Color photographs of an infant dress made of the same print fabric as the previously entered boy's sleeves. It is a hand-stitched gown with square neckline, cap sleeves, and a ruffle at the hem. It is open at back seam from bodice string closure to hem for easy off and on. An attached label says "probably worn in 1790," which may be true. It is more likely it was made by Judith Colby for her son, Edwin E., and then put away for safe-keeping when he died at the age of 4 years.

source: Infant Dress, Box 1, Textile Collection, MS0000.001, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives, Colby-Sawyer College

publisher: Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives

date: circa 1800

rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives.

format: image/jpeg

type: Image

identifier: textilesCollection_children_ _007a

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