Object Number 1994.0107.070

Object Name

Bonnet

Category

Textiles (Clothing)

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Eleanor A. Murphey in memory of Henry H. and Maria M. Albertson

Place of Origin

Pennsylvania or Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1835-1860

Materials

Silk

Dimensions (inches)

Dimensions (centimeters)

Object Description

Web - 08/09/2016

A silk bonnet made of olive green, plain-weave silk. Lined with tan plain-weave silk. The bonnet is soft, with a softly structured shape (additional support is created through stitching techniques in the lining. This is not boned or lined with a heavy supportive material like buckram) Thie bonnet has a ruffle (with a set of drawstrings on the inside) at the neck and wide gray silk ribbon ties. This belonged to a member of the Taylor family. Original tag stated "Taylor Bonnets. (Mostly Ellen Taylor Moon's)"

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Wass, Ann Buermann & Fandrich, Michelle Webb. 2010 Clothing Through American History: The Federal Era through Antebellum, 1786-1860.
• pg 186-87
[Thesis] Eisenbarth, Erin. 2002 Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing. 134 M.A. University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
• pg 130 (Eisenbarth's date range is a bit broad)