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Original Carte de visite ( cdv) photograph showing a Victorian lady with a fancy ostrich feather and fur bonnet. The verso has a Civil War period revenue Blue Washington two- cent stamp.
The January 18, 1868, issue of Harper’s Bazaar in the “Boston Fashion” section states:
A few of the feather and fur bonnets, now so fashionable in Europe, have just been imported. The feathers used are those of the grebe, pheasant and Ostrich. The white and pearl gray grebes are bound with green, scarlet, or blue velvet, while bonnets of dark pheasants’ feathers have a fall of brown lace … ”
~No doubt this lady pictured in this photograph wanted to make a fashion statement with the new bird hat craze among the Boston socialites".
