This dress bears the label of Augustine Martin and was purchased at the Philadelphia dry good emporium Darlington, Runk & Co. in 1880. The success of the House of Worth paved the way for many other ...

Eventually, he came across a book published in 1880 ... in the dress: "Bismark omit leafage buck bank." Bismark meant the weather was taken at the Bismark station, located in present-day North ...