Textiles, Clothing, and Domestic Articles

Textiles, Clothing, and Domestic Items

This collection consists of several hundred Longfellow, Dana, and Thorp family clothing items from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, including waistcoats, jackets, trousers, hats, caps, bonnets, shoes, gowns, stockings, and parasols.
Child's shirt from Longfellow family collection Late 1840s	Children’s clothing items include: Shoes Dresses Underclothes Pants Shirts.
Longfellow children's shoes, 1840s-1850s Moccasins, 1870s	Of particular interest are: Charles Longfellow’s Civil War uniform Nineteenth-century clothing items from Japan including thirteen Kimono Nineteenth-century regional costumes from Greece and the Philippines 1840s textile samples from Lowell mills Henry Longfellow's maroon velvet smoking jacket Moccasins.
Francis Dana's waistcoat Late 18th c.	Eighteenth-century family textiles and clothing items include: Francis Dana's waistcoat and breeches Francis Dana's shoe buckles Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow's shoes.
Textile samples from Lowell mills used for Longfellow children's clothing Late 1840s	Other flat and rolled textiles consist of panels or fragments of curtains, drapes, upholstery, towels, blankets, slipcovers, rugs, runners and carpets all used in the House. Fanny Longfellow's father, Nathan Appleton, was one of the founders of the Lowell texile mills, and a pioneer in American textile manufacturing. Fanny preserved samples of fabrics from the Lowell mills that were used to make her children's clothing as well as other textile samples.
Les Jeux d'Adresse (Games of Skill) A. Gautier, Paris mid-19th c.	Domestic items used by the Longfellow family include both recreational and personal objects: Children’s toys and games Dolls Child’s sled Jewelry Hat and hair ornaments Canes and walking sticks Fans Picnic basket with accessories.
Fireplace tools and andirons Alice's bedroom 18th and 19th c.	Utilitarian items dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century include: Fireplace utensils Fire screens Cooking tools Metal sitting bath Baskets Fifty travel trunks.
Pruning hook Early 20th c.	Outdoor tools and equipment dating from the 1890s to the 1920s include tree pruners, rakes, shovels, a reel lawn mower, and cement planters.

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