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Title: History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Chas. C. Chapman & Co.. pbl
Subjects: Pike County (Ill.) -- History Pike County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, C. C. Chapman & co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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THli Ni::W YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LE.NOX AM3TILDEN FOUNDATiONS. I HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 153 made of wide sleeves, open before, with ample size so as to envelopthe body almost twice around. Sometimes it had a Uirge cape,which answers well to save the shoulders from the rain. A belt ismostly used to keep the garment close around the person, and,nevertlieless, there is nothing tight about it to hamper the body.It is often fringed, and at times the fringe is composed of red, andother gay colors. The belt, frequently, is sewed to the hunting-shirt.The vest was mostly made of striped linsey. The colors v/ere madeoften with alum,copperas and madder, boiled with the bark of trees,in such a manner and proportions as the old ladies prescribed. Thepantaloons of the masses were generally made of deer-skin andlinsey. Course blue cloth was sometimes made into pantaloons. Linsey, neat and fine, manufactured at home, composed generallythe outside garments of the females as well as the males. Thelad

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