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Child's dress made of heavy blue fabric. Trimmed with fluted pleat ruffles and plaid shirring. Worn by Bertha Luzette Garman (1878-1974) in about 1888. She was born to George Wilson and Amanda Elizabeth (Zeigler) Garman in Bristol, Indiana. When she was three months old, the family homesteaded the Kill Creek area of Osborne County, where here farther worked as a carpenter. She and her sister attended the "Little Stoney" country school until high school, when they transferred to Osborne High School. In 1905 she married Ulysses George Hibbs.
Date: 1888
Item Number: 325111
KSHS Identifier: 1979.3.7
Collections - Museum
Date - 1880s - 1888
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Clothing - Clothing, Outerwear - Dress - Child's
Places - Cities and towns - Kill Creek
Places - Counties - Osborne
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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