waistcoat front
date: label: Date made
content: 1790-1810
label: date made
content: 1800-1820
notes: label: Description
content: Boy's waistcoat foreparts of dark red and yellow ikat weave silk; connected by a band collar; black braiding (faded to brown) on each center front and around collar, with metallic gold braid centered on the black braid along the left center front; braid forms eight ball buttons along the right front (one button is missing), and 9 loops along the left front; lined with off-white wool; pink and red printed calico facing reinforces the left center front, behind the loops; similar to a dickey, this waistcoat never had a back.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Reflections of the Past
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0320.002
label: accession number
content: 1995.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0320.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Waistcoat Front
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 18 in; 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: front, width: 4 1/4 in; 10.795 cm