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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 257

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ly and in suchnumbers, arehaloed with atradition ofvast age. Theirbeauty, delica-cy, and marvel-lous workman-ship are reasonenough for theirpreservation,without any question as to their antiquity. Few arevery old. These fine embroideries nearly all owetheir existence to the revolt of Marie… … Mrs. Abraham Redwood Ellery. Commodes, Mobs, and Pinners 5S9 point, and wore fine, embroidered India muslin andmull. The ladies of the Court look like cooks andconvent porters, in their muslin aprons and ker-chiefs, wrote the indignant Marechale de Luxem-bourg, and she sent to her granddaughter in…

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