Brown silk bonnet with ties. 5 large pleats at top/at brim over back of bonnet, gathered at center back neckline. 4 pleats on both sides for even-looking pleats and gathers all along neckline edge. 5-inch wide flat matching bow sewn onto back at neckline. 6.5-inch wide brim/visor with two 2.5-inch wide dull green ribbon ties (21 inches long) sewn on each side of lower edge of brim.
Written in pencil on cardboard inside bonnet: "Lillah Ballunce 6-1869"
Inside of stiff brim lined with ivory mesh. 3 stiff paper pieces slipped between pleats for extra support. 3-inch wide piece of plastic mesh sewn around base of brim. White ribbon at center back of neck for gathering and trying to adjust size. Thin covered wire all around lower edge/neck and around entire brim. 2 wires also along interior edge of widest pleat, from top center to neckline.
Mennonite cotton bonnet, winter grey. Previously stored in box printed, "Kraus Millinery / 209-211 West King Street / Lancaster, Pennsylvania" Owned by Barbara Sue Trout of Landisville, PA. See more info in Archives.
Mennonite cotton bonnet, black. Previously stored in box printed, "Kraus Millinery / 209-211 West King Street / Lancaster, Pennsylvania" Owned by Barbara Sue Trout of Landisville, PA. See more info in Archives.
