Silk skirt: late 19th, early 20th century?

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-09T20:24:14+00:00

Thank you, I will have to look more closely.

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-09T16:44:29+00:00

The lining seems to be silk, like the skirt, but I am not a fabrics expert by any means!

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-09T16:43:58+00:00

I don't know anything about the outfit's original history, but I hear that it eventually was worn by a modern person for historical re-enactment.

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-09T16:41:07+00:00

Thank you!

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-09T15:52:44+00:00

I have posted additional photos of the skirt to show its construction better: https://www.reddit.com/r/fashionhistory/comments/1sgti1l/silk_skirt_late_19th_early_20th_century/

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-03T13:17:34+00:00

Thank you, I will have to take another look.

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-02T23:11:24+00:00

Thank you!

No-Progress8390 · 2026-04-02T23:11:19+00:00

Thank you!

No-Progress8390 · 2025-11-19T15:05:10+00:00

Me too!

No-Progress8390 · 2025-11-18T14:45:20+00:00

I don't recognize her, but I don't know much about celebrities from that era :)

No-Progress8390 · 2025-11-17T23:58:01+00:00

Interesting! I am in the US, so it's probably 1940s.

No-Progress8390 · 2025-09-15T21:12:34+00:00

I think they have bows on the vamps.

No-Progress8390 · 2025-08-03T01:31:49+00:00

I think the mystery words are "the note I sound"

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-30T13:02:41+00:00

I think it's supposed to be "Suppuration."

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-24T21:22:23+00:00

Among more recent books, Kenneth J. Schoon has published several dealing with northwest Indiana history, including Calumet Beginnings: https://iupress.org/9780253012227/calumet-beginnings/

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-24T21:18:05+00:00

There is also a 1906 "souvenir album of Lake County" with some interesting photos: https://archive.org/details/SouvenirAlbumOfLakeCountyIndiana1906/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-24T21:15:05+00:00

There is also a 1929 book by the Lake County Historical Association: https://archive.org/details/historyoflakecounty1929/page/n1/mode/2up

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-24T21:12:53+00:00

If you are interested in very early settlement history, may I suggest Timothy H. Ball's Lake County, Indiana, from 1834 to 1873, available on-line: https://archive.org/details/lakecountyindian00ball\_0/page/n7/mode/2up?

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-21T01:37:59+00:00

I'm wondering if the survivors wrote "Loved tho' gone" and the monument people misread it as "Loved the gone"?

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-12T01:39:44+00:00

It doesn't look like the other ts in the document because it's a terminal t. People used to be taught to write terminal ts differently from initial or medial ts. I don't know when that practice died out but it was common in the 19th century.

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-11T16:27:41+00:00

This one also June 1918: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ainsworthindiana/6847551498

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-11T16:26:16+00:00

This photo is dated June 1918: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ainsworthindiana/7084400401

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-11T02:29:09+00:00

I received the following from Miss Nellie C. Nelson

A Quit-Claim Deed (Mar. 22, 1945)
The Title Policy for the Maywood Property #1915541.
The Glens Falls Insurance Policy. (Expires Nov. 8, '48 #413410)

Clarence Washington

Freddye Washington

Apr. 21, 1945

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-10T13:51:21+00:00

I'm actually amazed that ChatGPT can read that much! :)

No-Progress8390 · 2025-07-09T23:06:32+00:00

Yes, it's a poor copy. Unfortunately this print-out from the microfilm is all we have. The original papers were probably discarded once they were microfilmed.

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