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Collection Highlights

Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
Related Person: Cornelia De Peyster

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Collection of 14 Military Insignia and Crests, Cut Out, with 1 Scene of Soldiers Being Reviewed by a Woman, and 8 Sheets of Detail Sketches and Design Notes

Collection of 14 Military Insignia and Crests, Cut Out, with 1 Scene of Soldiers Being Reviewed by a Woman, and 8 Sheets of Detail Sketches and Design Notes
Title
Collection of 14 Military Insignia and Crests, Cut Out, with 1 Scene of Soldiers Being Reviewed by a Woman, and 8 Sheets of Detail Sketches and Design Notes
Date 
c. 1912
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Medium 
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on boards, cut out, with sheets of note paper and a letter
Dimensions 
Overall: 1 x 12 x 16 in. ( 2.5 x 30.5 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line 
Gift of the Estate of Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Object Number 
INV.14733
Inscriptions 
Inscribed and signed on verso of study of British Light Infantry Cap Insignia in brown ink: "For Dr. Ellis P. Oberholtzer / with compliments of / Chas M. Lefferts / 1912."; extensive annotations throughout
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.