Tappé, Herman Patrick, 1876-1954 (designer); Tappé Herman, Inc. (designer)
1938
Worn by Mrs. Robert F. Carr, Jr. (neé Vesta Culbertson) to her first wedding on January 15, 1938. Since divorced, she is now Mrs. Charles H. Morse, Jr.
Worn by donors' mother, Mary P. Withers, on the occasion of her marriage to Clive Runnells on September 10, 1921, in Lake Forest, Illinois at the Church of the Holy Spirit.
This is part of the Fall/Winter 1985 collection entitled (by the designer) "The Klimt Collection," named after the artist, Gustav Klimt, who worked in Vienna at the turn of the century and had a particular fascination with the decorative...
This is part of the Fall/Winter 1985 collection entitled (by the designer) "The Klimt Collection," named after the artist, Gustav Klimt, who worked in Vienna at the turn of the century and had a particular fascination with the decorative...
This is part of the Fall/Winter 1985 collection entitled (by the designer) "The Klimt Collection," so named after the artist, Gustav Klimt who worked in Vienna at the turn of the century and had a particular fascination with the decorative...
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...
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...
Worn as part of wedding ensemble by the donor's mother (née Florence Sanger Pullman, b. 8/11/1868, d. 6/5/1937) on April 29, 1896 on the occasion of her marriage to Frank Orren Lowden (b. 1/26/1896, d. 3/20/1943). In addition to this outer bodice,...
Worn by Mrs. John de Koven (neé Helen Haddock, 1836-1886) to wedding of her son Cecil Barnes and Margaret Ayer, May 21, 1910 at Saint James Episcopal Church, Cass and Huron Streets, Chicago.
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.
