Worn by donor, Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, née Florence Lowden, daughter of Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and Mrs. Lowden who was a daughter of George Mortimer Pullman.
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...
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....
