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Title	Wedding shoes of Bertha Niles.
Place	Hartford (Conn.)
Topic	Weddings
Genre	Clothing & dress
Theme	Lifestyle
Description	Cream-colored satin slippers have flat soles and square toes, and are decorated with white silk ribbon bow. There is no center back seam, but two side seams. One end of a long loop of very narrow tape is stitched to either side of the slipper.<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.<br>These shoes were worn by Bertha Olmsted Niles (1834-1926), daughter of John and Mary Ann Bull Olmsted, and the half sister of Frederick Law Olmsted, at her wedding to Bishop William Woodruff Niles in Hartford, Connecticut, on 5 June 1862. He was an Episcopal Bishop in New Hampshire for over forty years.<br>Gift of Mrs. Nelson Lee Smith.<br>
Date created	1862.
Physical format	1 pair of shoes : satin ; 4.8 x 6.4 x 23.8 cm. (height x width x length).<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1974.24.2a-c<br>File name: chs_1974_24_2ab.jpg<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Costumes

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