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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 172

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raph ; a pannier hoop, too, which naturallycould not be supplied in 1903. But it is surprising that so few of our portraitsdisplay the hoop when we remember its dominance.Artists both in England and America seem to havebeen a bit shy about perpetuating such extremes ascommode and hoop. Madam… … Mrs. Judith Bowdoin Flucker. 1740. Mid-century Modes 491 fashionable woman and she had the aristocratic bear-ing, the elegant carriage of her family. She wasJudith Bowdoin, sister of Governor Bowdoin, whofounded Bowdoin College. She was born March,1719 ; and in 1744 was married to Thomas…

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