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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 2 records found where LC Subject Heading is Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 19th century
	Letter from Lessie Southgate to James Southgate, Delia Southgate, James Haywood Southgate, Annie Southgate, Mattie Southgate, December 25, 1881 Lessie Southgate writes her family in Durham from Goliad, Texas where she is teaching music. She vividly recollects her illness and recovery in the winter of 1880, the visits of doctors Carr, Battle, and Knox, as well as the rich "Christmas eatings," her spare diet of "tea-eggs, toast and mush" and the gifts of her family and friends. Lessie tells her family about the benefit concerts she has organized and gives news of a concert she will give in Victoria, Texas. She writes about a fashionable dress that she will wear at Annie Bradshaw's wedding, a garment that she purchased with her earnings.
	Nachman and Lehman advertisements Poster promoting products for Nachman and Lehman, a firm that sold clothes, furnishings, hats, shoes, boots, and other goods in Durham, North Carolina. The store was located on Main Street.

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