textilesCollection_women_ _042a

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title: Woman's Corset

subject: Corsets

subject: Undergarments

subject: Women

subject: Foundation garments

description: Colored photographs of a lady's homespun corset, all hand-stitched, with 9 pair of reinforced eyelets (perhaps made of bone?) and one stitched opening at the hem. It had no lacing (in this photograph cotton textile string has been added). The construction of the back of the garment illustrates how fitted it is. An attached tag indicates the 1830 date.

source: Corset, Box 52, Textile Collection, MS0000.001, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives, Colby-Sawyer College

publisher: Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives

date: circa 1830

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

format: image/jpeg

type: Image

identifier: textilesCollection_women_ _041a

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