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1957.100

ID Number: 1957.100
Category: Personal Artifacts
Sub-category: clothing - outerwear
Item Name: dress
Date: c. 1840
Materials: TEXTILE, SILK TEXTILE, COTTON
Measurements: overall: 140 in x 52 in
Description: silk, cotton dress; handsewn; full skirt; gathered waist; binding on hem; short sleeves; stays; hooks and eyes down back; red, green, blue; Mackintosh Tartan
History: The owner of the dress was Marie Louise (Eliza) Mackintosh, born at Moy Hall her father's estate (Lot 93, 1st concession, township of Sandwich on the Detroit River between present day Moy and Gladstone Avenues in Windsor) on 7 March 1804. Her father was Angus Mackintosh, a merchant from Inverness, Scotland, who at this time represented the North West Company and her mother, Marie Archnage Baudry dit Desbuttes dit St. Martin, of Detroit. She married Robert Todd Reynolds of Amherstburg. Quote from Mrs. K.B. Brett, Curator, Dep't of Textiles, ROM, Oct. 28, 1968: "I think Mrs. Reynolds must have worn the dress just before she died. The bodice is characteristic of the 1850's but the style, with pointed front, lingered on, for evening dresses, into the 1860's. The flattening of the skirt at centre front is a feature of the 1860's"
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

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