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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9577419, member: 649"](This polka-dot adventure has been a very interesting rabbit hole for me!)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/pub_godeys-magazine?and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1857+TO+1857%5D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/pub_godeys-magazine?and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1857+TO+1857%5D" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> is an internet archive of Godey's Lady's Books from 1857... you could try looking through them to see what that particular scarf looked like and if it was anything like the scarf in your photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>(EDIT: The following reference states they couldn't find the polka-dot scarf cited as located in an 1857 Godey's, but says they did find a child's polka-dot bonnet in one of that year's issues.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2020/06/polka-dots-from-whence-name.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2020/06/polka-dots-from-whence-name.html" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> article talks about the history of polka-dots and includes the following 1850s/60s <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269226" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269226" rel="nofollow">Austrian photo</a>, held by NYC's Met Museum:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/269226/599109/main-image" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 9577419, member: 649"](This polka-dot adventure has been a very interesting rabbit hole for me!) [URL='https://archive.org/details/pub_godeys-magazine?and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1857+TO+1857%5D']HERE[/URL] is an internet archive of Godey's Lady's Books from 1857... you could try looking through them to see what that particular scarf looked like and if it was anything like the scarf in your photo. (EDIT: The following reference states they couldn't find the polka-dot scarf cited as located in an 1857 Godey's, but says they did find a child's polka-dot bonnet in one of that year's issues.) [URL='https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2020/06/polka-dots-from-whence-name.html']THIS[/URL] article talks about the history of polka-dots and includes the following 1850s/60s [URL='https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269226']Austrian photo[/URL], held by NYC's Met Museum: [IMG]https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/269226/599109/main-image[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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