Collection Highlights
Unidentified Osage Warrior Wearing Bird Headdress
1807
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Doll corset
Object name
Doll corset
Date
1870-1880
Medium
Cotton muslin, brass
Dimensions
overall:: 3 3/4 x 4 in. ( 9.5 x 10.2 cm )
Description
Two piece white glazed muslin corset with brass hook and eye at center front and gromets for lacing at center back; blue stitching detail and edging; whalebone boning at front. No back laces.
Credit Line
Gift of Marian F. Fraser
Object Number
2004.47.28ab
Gallery Label
This doll, Helen, her wardrobe and trunk were originally owned by Mary Augusta Colson whose seafaring family roots were in Brooklyn, New York and New England. The doll was purchased for Mary as a favor to Captain Colson by the owner of his ship, Vernon H. Brown in 1876. Mrs. Brown spent weeks with her dressmaker designing the most current fashions for the doll. Mary was later photographed with her doll in Boston, as were successive generations of female descendants, including the donor.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
