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Object Name
Dress
Object Number
1973-05-12
Description
White cotton christening dress; gathered waist and neckline; embroidery at waistband, shoulders and hem; long sleeves; drawstring closures at back
Comment
Christening dress worn by Stanley Lewis Coe, Philip Frederick Coe, and Frederick Levi Coe - sons of Frederick Lewis Coe and Sarah Clarissa Norton Coe and great great grandsons of Thomas Coe who followed his older brothers Jonathan and Ebenezer Coe from Middletown to Torrington about 1750 and soon moved to Litchfield where he bought a farm on Beach Street.
Category
Personal Artifacts
Maker
Date Made
c. 1880-1890
Materials
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