Description

Blouse: White cotton and polyester blouse. The blouse has long sleeves. It has a fold down pointed collar. Around the collar is a 1/4" wide white tatted like trim of oval loops. The blouse closes down the center front with 7 white plastic buttons. Material covers all of the buttons except the very top one at the neck. On each side of the front center are vertical 1/16" wide pin tucks. The pin tuck section is 3 5/8" long on each side. The top half of the pin tuck section has three vertical rows of 3/16" wide white tatted like trim of circles with a dot in the center. The sleeves have a 2" wide plain cuff and button with 1 white plastic button. There are two pleats on the sleeve above the cuff by where it buttons. On the inside center back uner the collar are two dark green labels. The top label has a tan fishing basket with "SINCE 1856/ORVIS R (in cricle)"in tan and two dark red criss-crossed fishing poles. The label below it is dark green with tan print. On the front side is "12/60% COTTON/ 40% POLYESTER/MADE IN HONG KONG/RN 70534/CARE ON REVERSE". On the back side is "MACHINE WASH/COLD SEPARATELY/DO NOT BLEACH/TUMBLE DRY LOW/REMOVE PROMPTLY/COOL IRON". Below that are four washing symbols: a three sided rectangle with a water line at the top and "30 (degrees symbol)" in it; a triangle with an "X" over it; a square with a circle in it with one dot in the circle; an iron with a dot in it. Condition - Good. There are no noticeable stains.

Worn by Jean Chesley. Jean Margaret Anderson Chesley was born to Alexander P. and Lydia J. Anderson on 8/2/1916 in Chicago. The Anderson family moved to Tower View Farm in Burnside Township in 1917. She graduated from Punahou High School, Honolulu in 1933. She received a BA in zoology from Carleton College in 1937. She married Frank Gunsaulus Chesley in 1938. They moved to Boston and returned to Red Wing in 1945. In 1966, she became the president of the Goodhue County Historical Society. She later served as the society's director until around 1994. From 1970-1992, she was involved with the Minnesota Historical Society as a member of the governing board, serving for 15 years as a vice-president. She was a member of MNHS's Grants Review Committee from 1977-1992. She was also a trustee of the Science Museum of Minnesota. She received the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. Jean Chesley died on 1/27/2010.

Geographic Notes

Hong Kong