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Title
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Elizabeth L.C. Dixon's Wedding Dress
Description
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Wedding dress worn by Elizabeth L. C. Dixon at 1842 presentation to King Philippe of France, Pope Gregory XVI and in 1846 President Polk as mentioned in 'Diary of Elizabeth Dixon'; White House History, Issue 33.
Made of ceam white satin elaborately embroidered in white on bottom and front in Chinese style with low neck, short sleeves, fitted and boned and sewed onto full skirt.
In 1945, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, granddaughter of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon loaned this dress to Wadsworth Atheneum for an exhibit: 'The Costume Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum', Dec 14, 1946 to Feb 23, 1947.
2010 inquiry by Welling heirs discoverer staff of Wadsworth Atheneum unable to locate the dress, surmised the dress was deaccessioned in the recent past, current owner unknown.
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Hartford Courant, December 14, 1946
Format
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Still image
Language
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En-
Subject
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Fashion -- women-- wedding dress-- 1840
Identifier
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Accession #1946.375-377
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1946.375-377
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Satin wedding dress worn by Elizabeth L. C. Dixon at 1842 presentation to King Philippe of France, Pope Gregory XVI and in 1846 President Polk as mentioned in 'Diary of Elizabeth Dixon'; White House History, Issue 33.
In 1945, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, granddaughter of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon loaned this dress to Wadsworth Atheneum for an exhibit: 'The Costume Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum' , Dec 14, 1946 to Feb 23, 1947.
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Title
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1946 Exhibit featuring wedding gown of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Subject
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Wedding dress 1840
Description
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Caption: “This Was Hartford" Victorian exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Avery Memorial Museum Friday night are seated, left to right, Mrs. Henri Berger, general curator of the Wadsworth Atheneum, a "visitor" who declined to give her name but who wore the 1840 gown of Mrs. James Welling’s mother and Mrs. Joseph R. Wright, Manchester, in a modern adaptation of a Victorian gown. Standing and authentically garbed, Miss Betty Y. Bitgood, West Hartford (Courant Photo).
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Wadsworth Atheneum exhibit,
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Hartford Courant photo,
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Title
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Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon Wedding Portrait
Subject
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Female Portraits
Description
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Torso Portrait Including hand of Miss Elizabeth L. Cogswell, painted while a student at Mrs. E. Smith school, 1-3 Fifth Ave, New York City
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Artist Unknown
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Photo credit: Elizabeth Dixon Welling Regan
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E- Archives
Date
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Circa 1835-1840
Contributor
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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Title
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
Subject
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Public Museum Collections --United States
Creator
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Description
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Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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Wedding gown of lustrous white satin, embroidered in white, worn by Mrs. James Dixon at her wedding in 1840.
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1840 wedding gown, worn in Europe, Paris, Washington DC as noted in published diary White House History, Issue 33. Diary of Elizabeth Dixon 185-1847
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Title
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1840 Wedding Dress Worn by Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Subject
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Wadsworth Athenaeum Textiles Collection -- lost items
Description
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Wedding dress worn on October 1, 1840 by Elizabeth L. C. Dixon on the day of her marriage to James Dixon, Esq. She wore it again in 1842 at her presentation to King Louis Phillippe of France, in Italy when she met Pope Gregory XVI and in 1846 when she met President James Polk; as mentioned in 'Diary of Elizabeth Dixon'; White House History, Issue 33.
The dress was made of cream white satin elaborately embroidered in white on bottom and front in Chinese style with low neck, short sleeves, fitted and boned and sewed onto full skirt.
In 1945, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, granddaughter of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon loaned the dress to Wadsworth Atheneum for an exhibit: 'The Costume Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum', Dec 14, 1946 to Feb 23, 1947.
In 2010 the niece of Miss Welling requested to see the Wedding Dress, and the Wadsworth Atheneum staff confirmed the dress associated with accession number: 1946.375-377 is no longer in the Wadsworth Atheneum collections and staff cannot confirm where it is, when and if it was deaccessioned or sold at auction.
Date
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1840
Contributor
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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-eng
Type
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Object
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Wadsworth Accession No. 1946.375-377
Coverage
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1840
Creator
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Unknown
1840 wedding dress
Elizabeth LC Dixon