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Blue Party Dress

Ascension Number: 2,023,094 Location: Clothing Box 6 Collection: Wolfe Collection Date: 1941-1950 Color: Blue Creator: N/A Gender: Female (1940s?) blue satin party dress. mesh neckline with off the shoulder drape. Gathered skirt with pulled up drape. blue lace at edges of skirt drape, collar and armseye. side metal zipper.

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Two-piece Fur Stole

Ascension Number: 2,024,156 Location: Clothing Box 18 Collection: Date: 1951-1960, 1961-1970 Color: Brown Creator: N/A Gender: Female Fur stole, two connected pelts side by side, part of a three-part stole set with 2024154 and 2024155. Lisa Ferrante Perrone, a professor of Italian at Bucknell, donated this piece. It was originally owned by Angela Castagna Formato, born in 1903 and grew up in Manhattan.

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Pink Cardigan

Ascension Number: 2,024,104 Location: Clothing Box 18 Collection: Date: 1941-1950, 1951-1960 Color: Pink Creator: Bonnie Briar Gender: Female beaded cardigan, clear beaded details down the center, pearl details down the center, shiny buttons down the center

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