Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 115
arefully pre-served as a sa-cred relic, andis now ownedby the Duke ofPortland. Thispearl was givento the Earl ofPortland byKing William,with an attesta-tion in the hand-writing of the Princess of Orange. It is pear-shaped,about five-eighths of an inch long, mounted with agold top, with a wire to… … Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. Muffs and Ear-rings 455 seventeenth century show ear-rings, usually pearls.A great pearl is in the left ear of Thomas Button(nat. 1507, ob.1582), the founder of one branch ofthe Cheshire family of his name ; his right ear is notshown ; generally but one ear was…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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