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Children's Clothing


by Linda Baumgarten

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Girl's or Sample Shoes Girls or Sample Shoes. Buff leather with striped linen lining, 6 3/4 inches long with a 2-inch heel possibly America, 1770-178, 1953-1043.
Young Boy in Green Suit attributed to the Beardsley Limner. Oil on canvas. Probably New England, ca. 1790. The boy wears the suit and shirt with large open collar fasionable at the time. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 64.100.4. Young Boy in Green Suit

Article written by Linda Baumgarten, Curator of Textiles of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The article is an excerpt from the catalog Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg. To place an a credit card order for a copy of Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg call the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center Bookstore at (757) 229-1000, Ext. 2691.



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