Ball dress
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802969
Item data
Title
Ball dress
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Costume -- 1860s -- American
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1864
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC COSTU-186-Am
Subjects
Women -- Clothing & dress -- United States -- 1860-1869
Clothing & dress -- United States -- 1860-1869
Hairstyles -- United States
Ball dresses -- 1860-1869
Genres
Notes
Content: Printed on image: "Name for marking." Written on border: "Sept. 1864."
Brown spot on image (under the chin).
Source Note: The Peterson magazine. (Philadelphia : Charles J. Peterson, 1842-1898).
Physical Description
Extent: 1 print : b ; 23 x 14 cm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17566451
Barcode: 33333159221767
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e16ed440-c542-012f-8d06-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1864
Cite this item
MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ball dress" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1864. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16ed440-c542-012f-8d06-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1864). Ball dress Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16ed440-c542-012f-8d06-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ball dress" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16ed440-c542-012f-8d06-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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