51.90.2

Dress, Child's

1960 Approximate

Blue Nylon Organdy Child's Dress. Material: textile, shell. Size: 11" W. x 16 1/2" L. Description: blue nylon with white cotton trim; white flocked floral striped pattern runs horizontally across front bodice and vertically around skirt and back bodice; rounded neckline with narrow two-pointed collar; white satin bow at center neckline; short puffed sleeves edged with white lace; two horizontal rows of white lace across front bodice; skirt gathered to waistline piped with narrow blue cotton; one white satin ribbon tie attached at each waistline side; back closure with two white buttons in short 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.