Transcript 19thcburialdress

Nineteenth Century Burial Dress
• Three cast iron coffins from South
Louisiana contain amazingly well
preserved garments from 1850s male and
female burials and provide an
unprecedented research opportunity
• Textile remains from the other burials have
been more fragmentary
Mid-nineteenth Century Cast Iron
Coffin Burials
Garments from 1850s
Louisiana burial
• Embroidered chemisette
• Embroidered undersleeve
• Waist band on petticoat
• Cloth shoe
Alice Taylor, 1840-1859
Burial garment
fragments from chemise
and nightgown and
detail of trim on ruffled
yolk of nightgown
Col. Lewis DeRussy, 1795-1864
• Detail of red brocade
on waistcoat fabric
• Porcelain buttons
and fabric button holes
from waistcoat
•Col. DeRussy
• Late 1850s man’s
white waistcoat from
LSU Historic Textile
and Costume
Museum, believed to
be similar to the one
worn by Col. DeRussy