Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · 1903 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · 213 pictures

Alice Morse Earle's two-volume history of American dress from 1620 to 1820, published by Macmillan in 1903 for general readers and students of social custom. Halftone reproductions of colonial and Federal portraits, plus garments and accessories, show caps, lace fichus, ruffled sleeves and high-waisted gowns in soft grey tone useful for period dress reference and portrait silhouettes.

Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775

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