Nineteenth Century Burial Dress

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Nineteenth Century Burial Dress

• Three cast iron coffins from South Louisiana
  contain amazingly well preserved garments from
  1850s male and female burials and provide an
  unprecedented research opportunity
• Textile remains from the other burials have been
  more fragmentary

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Mid-nineteenth Century Cast Iron Coffin Burials

• Garments from 1850s Louisiana burial
• Embroidered chemisette
• Embroidered undersleeve
• Waist band on petticoat
• Cloth shoe

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Alice Taylor, 1840-1859
Burial garment fragments from chemise and
nightgown and detail of trim on ruffled yolk of
nightgown
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Col. Lewis DeRussy, 1795-1864

• Detail of red brocade on waistcoat fabric
• Porcelain buttons and fabric button holes from
  waistcoat
• Col. DeRussy
• Late 1850s mans white waistcoat from LSU
  Historic Textile and Costume Museum, believed to
  be similar to the one worn by Col. DeRussy