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    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Oscar de la Renta (Firm) (designer)

    • 1970

    • Worn by Mrs. Alison Campbell de Frise (b. 1933).
    • Dress

    • Dress
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    • 1770-1775

    • Worn by great-great-great-great grandmother of donor in her wedding. The homespun linen lining of this gown was taken and scraped into lint and used for dressing wounds of the American Revolutionary War soldiers in the year 1776. (Transcribed...
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Mainbocher, 1891-1976 (designer)

    • circa 1938

    • Worn by Mrs. A. Watson Armour III to Chicago's annual Assembly Ball.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Callot Soeurs (Firm) (designer)

    • 1921

    • Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat.
    • Dress

    • Dress
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    • 1879

    • Worn as a bridesmaid dress.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Pingat, Emile (designer)

    • 1878

    • 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....
    • Dress: bodice and skirt

    • Dress: bodice and skirt
    •  

    • 1863

    • 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.
    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Loper, Don, 1906-1972 (designer)

    • 1955

    • Worn by donor's aunt, Frances Abrams McCall, at her second wedding. Was originally worn with a very thin belt.
    • Ensemble: jacket, vest, and skirt

    • Ensemble: jacket, vest, and skirt

    • Marshall Field & Company (distributor)

    • 1914

    • Setting-out ensemble worn by Lucy McCormick Blair after her marriage on May 9th, 1914 to Howard Linn at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
    • Necktie

    • Necktie
    •  

    • 1853

    • Wedding necktie worn by Mr. James M. Donnelly, grandfather of donor, on November 29, 1853.
    • Overcoat

    • Overcoat

    • Lucile (Firm) (designer)

    • circa 1923

    • Worn by Margaret Harwood Stevens.
    • Shoes

    • Shoes

    • Pinet, F. (designer)

    • circa 1910

    • Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer.
    • Vest

    • Vest

    • J.H. Blood (creator)

    • 1857

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

    • Vest
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    • circa 1865

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

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