Item 105363 - Leavitt family coat-dress, Eastport, ca. 1830
- Item 105363 - Leavitt family coat-dress, Eastport, ca. 1830
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- Item 105363
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Image Info This wadded mulberry taffeta coat-dress is associated with the Leavitt family of Eastport. It may have belonged to Harriet Lamphrey Leavitt, who married Benjamin Leavitt in 1824, and died in 1840.
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The very full gigot (aka "leg of mutton") sleeves are emblematic of fashions straddling the 1830 to 1835 period.
