Photo by Susan Einstein, Los Angeles, CA.
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- Object Name
- Maker
- Date
circa 1861
- Materials
Bodice: cotton, hand-sewn, hook and eye closure, gathered front, puffed and gathered sleeves below shoulders ending at wide sleeves at bottom, cotton lining across the back and the lower front area; Skirt: two-tiered, gathered at waist, lower tier has hem edged in purple
- Dimensions
52 in x 15 in (132.1 cm x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line
In Memory of Janet S. Payne
- Object ID
98.142.2-.3
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- Institution
Autry Museum of the American West
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- Category
Art and Artifacts
- Remarks
Woman's dress, consisting of bodice and two-tiered skirt, white and purple patterned cotton, made and used by Janet Sherlock Smith, circa 1861. A Mormon convert born in Scotland, Janet Sherlock Smith emigrated to the United States in 1861 and walked across half the continent to Utah. A few months later she sewed this bodice and skirt to be her wedding dress for her marriage to Richard Sherlock.
- Subject
- Used
- Publication
Empire and liberty the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff, exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken. page 142; plate 11 (photo insert)