Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer); Worth and Bobergh (designer)
1861
Although married in Chicago in 1858, it was not until 1874 that the McCormick family constructed a permanent Chicago residence. They had homes in both New York and Washington and traveled abroad extensively, particularly to European expositions at...
Purchased by the donor's great grandmother, Mrs. Augustus Newland Eddy (née Abby Louise Spencer), when she was in Paris with her father in 1878. According to the donor's grandmother, Mrs. Eddy wore this dress for a portrait painted by G.P.A....
Worn by Mrs. Henry Nelson Tuttle, née Fannie Farwell (1858-1918). Fannie Farwell's wedding to Henry Tuttle in the winter of 1888 was a grand social affair attended by Chicago's most notable families. Fannie wore this traveling coat as part of her...
Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer I, née Bertha Honoré, and subsequently used to decorate a Bes-Ben hat that had since been made to accommodate it. One of the medallions had also been removed and given away. It was subsequently replaced with another...
Worn by Mrs. Henry A. Rumsey. In 1911, the Rumseys commissioned a grand home - modeled after the eighteenth-century Clifford Manor House in Warwickshire, England - on eight acres in Lake Forest, Illinois. The label on this dress states it was made...
Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer. Mrs. Palmer commissioned this dress from the House of Weeks (Paris) in 1911 to wear to the coronation of King George V in London. The embroidery down the center front is very similar to the embroidery on the...
Anita Carolyn Blair wore this dress to the debut of Gladys High in Chicago, a bold and possibly scandalous choice that would have upstaged the young woman hosting the party.
