Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Dress

Posted in Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature by beineckepoetry on May 2, 2011

Fragment of the wedding dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards, from the Jonathan Edwards Papers: GEN MSS 151.

Featured on the cover of Susan Howe’s book That This, recently awarded the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

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