May Saunders Harrison in Centennial Ball dress
| Description: |
Photograph of Mary Angeline (May) Saunders Harrison, wife of Russell Harrison. Photo shows her in the dress that she wore to the Centennial Ball in New York in 1889. On heavy board. The newspaper clipping taped to the back is quite long and describes the ladies dresses and the flowers at the ball. It states of May, Mrs. Russell Harrison, who is a very beau- / tiful blonde, wore a dress made after the/ Colonial style. The train was a Pompadour / brocade, the ground of which was a wide/ alternate stripes of silk and satin, and bro-/ eaded in pale pink full-brown roses and buds/ and green leaves. The front of the skirt was/ of pale blue satin, draped with tulle elab-/ orately embroidered with opals and pearls,/ the short apron front of the gauze being/ completely covered with alternate strings of/the opals and the pearls. The bodice was of/ the brocade and was cut decolletee, the dehu/ on one side being of pale blue marabout/ feathers, and on the other of the opal-beaded/ gauze. She carried a fan of pale blue ostrich feathers,/ and wore pale blue satin slippers/ beaded with opals and pearls. |
|---|---|
| Origin: | 1889 |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BHPS/id/6586 |
| Collection: |
Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
No Copyright – United States |
| Subjects: |
Harrison, Mary Angeline Saunders Balls (Parties) Ball dresses |
Further information on this record can be found at its source.
This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.