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Woman's Drawers
Woman's Drawers

Woman's Drawers

Clothing Maker
Dateabout 1895-1905
MediumMachine-stitched cotton
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (length): 26 1/2in. (67.3cm)
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineGift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub
DescriptionWhite cotton split drawers, gathered into a narrow waist yoke, which closes at the back on a drawstring. The legs are each gathered into a band of eyelet embroidery, and end in a 3 1/4-inch flounce with scalloped eyelet embroidery at the bottom.
Object number2001.7.2
NotesHistorical Note: Katharine Anna Klauder married Charles Ockert, president of the Ockert Safe Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1901.
On View
Not on view
Front of chemise
Nellie Stevens
about 1865-1875
Front of chemise
Mary Jerusha Bulkeley
1865
Gift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub. © 2009 The Connecticut Historica…
Katharine Anna Klauder
about 1905
Gift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub, 2001.7.4a-b, Connecticut Histori…
Katharine Anna Klauder
about 1901-1905
Gift of Mrs. Ethel Rosebrooks Larkin and Mrs. Ruth C. Waterman, 1974.114.1.3, Connecticut Histo…
Alta Harriett Farr
1885
2002.47.2c
Eugenia Wealthy Hathaway
about 1880-1895
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Helen Woodward
about 1892
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Unknown
about 1885-1900
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Minnie Tatem Satterlee
1893
Front of chemise
Julia P. Rogers
about 1858
Woman's Drawers
Unknown
about 1880-1890