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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 103

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and a striped cotton of green and black,red and brown, blue and yellow, for the lining,made a less costly and less elegant garment. 1have seen a long and full banian of heavy cottonfabric figured with a palm-leaf design of many huesand lined with a soft sarcenet silk of bright orangehue spotted… … Nightgowns, Nightralls ; Banyans, Turbans 443 his son, Rufus Brown ; Supercargo of the bark The LivelyNancy. He cleared ;^ 100,000 of Chinese gold Cash fora venture of ^100 of Ginseng; and i Barrel of dried Sageof his Mothers Venture cleared a Chiney tea set, 2 CrapeShawls and ^100, All lost by…

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