51.90.3

Dress, Child's

1960 Approximate

Pink Organdy Dress. Material: textile, plastic. Size: 10" W, 17 1/4" L. Description: pink with pink rosebud nylon organdy print; rounded neckline with Peter Pan collar; short puffed sleeves; skirt gathered to waistline; white featherstitching around collar, sleeve edges, waistline and ties; front center bodice designed with six vertical tuck pleats; double pink nylon print bow at center neckline; waistline ties are attached at front center sides and pass through side belt loops to tie at back waistline; closure with four buttons in back neckline placket.

Dress sewn by Mildred Appelonia (Fertig) Hartig, grandmother to donor. Beth Mary (Parkyn) Clemons wore these dresses in the 1960s when she was a small child living in Waterville, LeSueur County, Minnesota. Donor’s grandmother was 73 years old and lived with her daughter and son-in-law Florence and Vern Ellingson in Mill Valley, Marin, California. Mildred was born 8 July 1886 in Arcadia, Trempealeau, Wisconsin to Joh Martin Fertig, a purebred German from Watterbach, Bavaria, Germany and Mary Gasal, a purebred Swiss from Sauk, Sauk, Wisconsin, both pioneer families that settled in the region. Mildred taught school in Miles City, Custer, Montana where she met and married John Frederick Hartig.