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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 148

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colors in the Dutch gowns were uniformlygay. Madam Cornelia de Vos in a green cloth pet-ticoat, a red and blue Haarlamer waistcoat, apair of red and yellow sleeves, a white cornet cap,green stockings with crimson clocks, and a purple Pooyse apron was a blooming flower-bed ofcolor. I fear we have… … Mrs. Magdalen Beekman. Attire of Virginia Dames 105 Their hair, untortured by the abominations of art,was scrupulously pomatumed back from their foreheadswith a candle, and covered with a little cap of quilted cal-ico, which fitted exactly to their heads. Their petticoatsof linsey-woolsey were…

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