Two piece silk plaid "Sunday Best" or wedding dress. Dart fitted hand stitched bodice with ruching on bodice and sleeves; coat sleeves. Pleated skirt into waistband. Many hand stitched repairs on hem area of skirt.
(currently exhibited in room 1B on dress form)
Large wooden framed portrait of James Goldsbury (1797-1898)
Selectman 9 years; Justice of Peace, Town Treasurer, Son of Col. Jas. Goldsbury.
Built Goldsbury Homestead 1827. Blind 15 yrs. Died age 101.
Obi sash with double-sided Netsuke head, probably carved Ivory, probably Japanese
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Polychrome Netsuke figure (ofd a monkey?) with movable head used as a coat button
From Japan
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Netsuke scholar figures probably carved from ivory, probably Japanese
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Mini clay pot from the coast of Africa
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Cloth made from the bark of trees
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Cloth made from the bark of a tree from Japan
Part of the William Howard, Sr. Collection
Purse made by the Esquimaux Indians. Presented by John Henderson
William Howard, Sr. collection
Two Woven Sashes
From the Fiji Islands, (poor condition)
William Howard, Sr. collection
