Exhibition

Celebrating Donors: Shannon Rodgers and Cora Ginsburg
Higbee Gallery, July 1996 to March 1997
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
  

left:
Man's coat
American, 4th quarter of the 18th century
Cream silk figured with red and black stripes
Provenance: worn by Captain John Patterson of Philadelphia and Baltimore
The Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
1983.1.23 

center:
Court dress
English, ca.1825
White silk taffeta moire heavily embroidered in golg strip with paste amethyst.
The Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
1983.1.2011

right:
Evening dress
Possibly English, ca.1805
White mull cotton embroidered with silver-coiled threads
The Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
1983.1.27

 

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