Dress was worn by Mary Jemima "Mima" Malcolm for her marriage to Thomas Raffington on January 4, 1863. Wear marks indicate that this dress was worn many times following the wedding.
Used by Mrs. R. C. Fisk at her wedding April 4, 1816. Worn with wedding shoes - 1991.580.3a-b. Mrs. Fisk is Mr. Bennet B. Harvey Jr.'s great-great-grandmother.
Worn by Paul B. Norland as a page at the wedding of Mattie Quales and Ernst A. Erickson in 1897. The wedding took place at the Quales family homestead at 1951 West Schiller Street, Chicago, where Mr. and Mrs. Erickson lived after their marriage....
Worn by donor's mother, Mrs. Nicholas Klesen (née Martha Scholz) for her wedding on June 18, 1910 at St. Nicholas Church, 113th Place and State Street, Chicago.
Worn by Magdalen Szczesny (born 1904, died 1980) on the occasion of her marriage to Robert Lisenbey (born 1905, died 1970) on May 30, 1930 in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.
Worn by donor's mother Elise Marie Roach (born February 19, 1921) at her wedding to John Edward Cummens at the Chicago Lawn Methodist Church (63rd Street and St. Louis Avenue) on October 15, 1941. She purchased the dress at a shop near the...
Worn by donor's grandmother, Annie Louisa Libby on the occasion of her marriage to Mr. William French Burrows, September 7, 1880 and again by donor on June 13, 1942, on the occasion of her marriage to Mr. Lawrence Dawson.
Worn by the donor's mother, Mrs. Charles Pratt Gladwin, neé Helen Grace Pearson, to her wedding on June 26, 1877. Mrs. Gladwin was later remarried to Mr. Scott, the donor's father.
Florence Hooker Cheney (died circa 1905) wore this dress when she married William Cheney Jr. on September 11, 1901. Worn with bright pink satin corset (1984.503.17) and possibly also bright pink garters (1984.503.18).
