At 21:52 09/07/2006, you wrote:
Suzi,
I would love to see the pictures and some of the info you
collected. Can you add me to the list - e-mail me directly at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Sarah
Sarah
I will add you to my list, but there will be no photos of the museum
items - I am not allowed to publish these without paying a huge fee!
This is normal practice when photo-ing a museum's reserve collection
i.e. those items not on public display.
I got to spend a whole day (!) at the DAR Museum, looking at female
clothing from +/- 1780-1820. Alden O'Brien asked a colleague, a
former curator, to join us, and then simply opened drawers and asked
if we wanted to see the contents. There were short gowns, altered
gowns, corsets, a bodiced petticoat, fans, pockets, purses, a few
fashion plates referring to a couple of garments we were looking at...........
The next day we started off for Virginia, but got seriously
distracted by G street Fabrics, where I topped up the stash, and
bought several items from the Notions department. (DH meanwhile was
buying shoes.)
The former curator very kindly arranged for Anne and I to meet with
Linda Baumgarten at Colonial Williamsburg for an hour and a half,
where we got to see some ladies' garments of the same period, plus
drawers full of quilted petticoats, pockets and stomachers. We
over-ran our time, so Linda sent me the details of what we saw, which
I will enjoy checking out once my brain stops aching.
I spent some very pleasant,if busy, days with Anne, her DH and my DH,
including a trip to see Colonial Williamsburg - the town - and
Jamestown. We only hit one fabric store, honest, and I only bought a
couple of notions, no fabric.
On the morning of the day we left, Mary, the former curator, met me,
showed me some more items from her personal collection and we then
had a very rushed visit through the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, where there is a wonderful Venetian exhibition currently
on show, I also bought a few (not!) postcards to add to my collection.
If anyone would like more details, I will be sending a newsletter to
my friends and colleagues who are interested. I can add you to the
list. Unfortunately there will not be photos, as I signed forms to
keep them to myself, and not publish on the internet. (Quite normal
with museum collections.)
Suzi
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