Cap

Date1795-1800

MediumLinen, paper

DimensionsOD: 4 3/4"; OH: 4 1/2"

Credit LineGift of Kathleen E. Van Deusen

Object number2004-32

DescriptionInfant child's natural-color linen cap, shaped to curve over head by a single seam curving from the crown down to the back neck. Pleats around bottom of neck give further shaping. Front rounded ears are hemmed. No ties or lining. Came with paper tag reading "My grandmother's mother Harriette Gookin Storer (4 lbs) wore this cap. Harriette Storer Fisk 1901. It is said she was too small to wear the embroidered caps made for her."
ProvenanceAll items came from Fisk, Storer, Gookin, and Green family, some of which are from the middle Atlantic states. The donor received the items from a friend of her mother. The family papers are in the Newberry Library archive in Chicago, Illinois.
An Ancestry.com search finds a Harriet Gookin born in 1795 in Rockingham, New Hampshire; she married Tristram Storer in 1820 in York, Maine.