From the press release:
Fashioning New Mexico
Brocaded wedding dress with train, ca.1882
Mrs. James Merritt of Brooklyn, New York wore this stunning wedding dress. Her family later moved to New Mexico.
History Collection NMHM, DCA
Gift of Louise O. Callin, 1087/45
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