Collections record Beta

Booties

2013-110-23 a,b

Pair of white cotton child's booties. Machine-stitched, picot-trim along open edge of booties. Single ivory satin ribbon closure. Embroidered with blue-five-petal flowers with yellow centers connected by green stem-stitch vines with pink and blue french knots

These booties were made by Jean Fyfe Marrin and worn by her son, Oswald W. Marrin Jr. Oswald Wright Marrin Jr. (1919-2007) was born in New York City and lived in Litchfield. After graduating from Brown University in 1942 he joined the U.S. Marines. He was discharged in 1946. He worked at Scovill Manufacturing until 1951. He then took over the Marrin Real Estate company, which had been founded by his mother in 1930. He was the borough warden from 1967 to 1976. In 1984, he served on the Litchfield Citizen Advisory Committee which formed the town plan of development. He was a trustee of the Litchfield Historical Society, a member and past president of the Greater Litchfield Preservation Trust and of the Litchfield Country Club, a member of the Sanctum, and charter member of the Rotary Club.

• Marrin, Jean Fyfe

c. 1917

length: 4"

• cotton
• silk