This brooch was given to Mrs. Palmer to commemorate the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Its inscription, Oro y Plata, is the state motto for Montana. The nail contained within the pin was the final nail used in construction of the Exposition's...
This wedding dress, worn by Theodora Shaw on June 29, 1935, was originally made in Chicago for the bride's mother, Frances Wells, when she married Howard Van Doren Shaw on April 20, 1893. Although the skirt and bodice are original, the bodice...