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    • Tea gown

    • Tea gown

    • Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer); House of Worth (Firm) (designer)

    • circa 1900

    • Worn by Mrs. Colin Powys (Nancy Lathrop Carver Leiter) Campbell, wife of Colonel Colin Powys Campbell, mother of the donor, and daughter of Levi Zeigler Leiter, a pioneer Chicago merchant and associate of Marshall Field and Potter Palmer.
    • Tree

    • Tree

    • James, Charles, 1906-1978 (designer)

    • 1957

    • James created his first Tree gown in 1955; this version followed two years later. He stated that the design used "faille stretched like a ruched membrane over a stiffened shell molded NOT to the figure of the client, but to the shape I wished it...
    • Vest

    • Vest

    • Delang & Company (creator)

    • 1909

    • Worn by Mr. Bruce Borland, husband of donor, at his wedding to Miss Dorothy Fuller.
    • Vest

    • Vest

    • Wallin & O'Connell (creator)

    • circa 1855

    • Worn by Benjamin Peters Hutchinson (1828-1899), grandfather of the donors, when he was married to Sarah Ingalls in Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1855. Mr. Hutchinson, who was popularly known as "Old Hutch," established the first packing company in...
    • Vest

    • Vest

    • J.H. Blood (creator)

    • 1857

    • Worn by Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, son of Reverend John Blatchford, and grandfather of donor.
    • Vest

    • Vest
    •  

    • circa 1865

    • Worn by Royal Alexander Blaine Mills, grandfather of donor.
    • Vest

    • Vest
    •  

    • 1838

    • Worn by D. C. Fisk (great-great grandfather to Mr. Bennet B. Harvey, Jr.) to his wedding. Worn with spectacles (1991.580.15a-b).
    • Vest

    • Vest
    •  

    • 1854

    • Worn by William Blair at his wedding in 1874.
    • Wedding case with coin

    • Wedding case with coin
    •  

    • 1934

    • Used by donor, née Louise de Marigny Dewey, on occasion of her marriage to Edward Byron Smith on May 23, 1934.
    • Wrapper

    • Wrapper

    • House of Worth (Firm) (designer)

    • circa 1900

    • Worn by Bertha Honoré Palmer.
    • Wreath

    • Wreath
    •  

    • 1854

    • Worn by Mrs. Robert G. Spencer, née Sarah Beach.

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