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Girl's Coat

Date: 1823
Description: Front view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Historical Object

Girl's Coat

Date: 1823
Description: Three-quarter view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Historical Object

Worth Gown

Date: 1880
Description: Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild.
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Girl's White Leather Gloves

Date: 1845
Description: These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t...
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Shawl Dress

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter view of a lightweight wool dress cut from a shawl, in cream, rust and indigo paisley with a black center. The paisley has a bird-of-paradise ...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

Date: 
Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
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Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 08 1901
Description: A photograph of Louise Mears Fargo and her children is mounted on an album page decorated with a hand-painted wild rose. In the photograph, Louise, wearing...
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Frank B. Fargo Family

Date: 1906
Description: An album page features a collection of family photographs which include head and shoulders studio portraits of Frank B. Fargo and his wife Louise Mears Far...

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