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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 9577419, member: 649&quot;](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&#039;s Lady&#039;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&#039;t find the polka-dot scarf cited as located in an 1857 Godey&#039;s, but says they did find a child&#039;s polka-dot bonnet in one of that year&#039;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&#039;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>

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