Hand crocheted christening dress; Ardito - Zaccheo family; 1930s-1960s
date: label: date made
content: 1930 - 1969
notes: label: Description
content: Infant's christening dress, worked in ecru crochet cotton. One of a collection of 20 crocheted pieces worked by Mrs. Anna Consaga Ardito, or her daughter, Celestina Ardito Zaccheo, Connecticut, 1930s-60s. Mrs. Ardito and her daughter were skilled at this work and evised their own patterns, as well as using commercially printed patterns. This christening dress had a long history of use with in the family.
label: Description
content: Anna Consaga Ardito was born in Castellana, Italy in1865 and died in 1962. Her husband, Angelo Ardito, was a livery driver; all of their children came to the U.S. and became citizens. Family history states that they arrived in the usual fashion of serial migration, with one or two siblings coming in steerage, then working as nannies or domestics to save money in order to send for the next one or two, until all had arrived safely. The family settled in Windsor Locks, CT and later in Springfield, MA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thomas Zaccheo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0015.07
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0015.07
label: accession number
content: 2018.0015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: christening dress
label: Object Name
content: christening dress, crochet
label: Object Name
content: dress, christening
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: dress (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: hand crocheted (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 in; 111.76 cm