44.20

Coat, Child's

1949 Approximate

Yellow Wool Girl's Spring Coat. Material: textile, plastic. Size: 10" W. (shoulder to shoulder) x 17" L. Description: yellow wool, narrow rolled collar, two yellow plastic buttons for front closure, a third button missing; long sleeves, pale yellow cotton lined; one vertical row of green satin-stitched embroidered flowers on each side of coat front.

The donor Vicki Lynn Gedosch Oeljen wore this coat as a young girl; it was hand sewn by her mother Blanche Elsie Nass Gedosch (Mrs. Don Gedosch) around 1949; the Gedosch family lived at 409 9th Ave., SE in Waseca.