Object Number: TC3329

Collection: Social History

Object Name: dress box

Description: Dress box from F.K. Lewis & Co., of Union St, Bristol. It is filled with layers of tissue paper, sheets of the Bristol Times and Mirror dated 21/10/1916 and a cotton bag filled with dried lavender. It was used to store Mrs May Evelyn Whitcombe's wedding dress (TC3328) after the death of her husband in 1916. See the object record for TC3328 for more detail. Related items: TB3328 wedding dress; TB3330 photograph of Edgar Whitcombe c.1916; TB3331 photograph of May Whitcombe c.1916; TB3332 photograph of May Whitcombe c.1916.