Evening hat

Balch, Price & Company|Berthe

1889 · silk, fur, metal, rhinestones · Costume Institute

Amelia Beard Hollenback (1844-1918) was the wife of prominent financier and philanthropist John Welles Hollenback (1835-1927). In 1874, the Hollenback family settled in the neighborhood of Clinton Hill in Brooklyn. At that time, Brooklyn was a metropolitan center with numerous affluent neighborhoods and a thriving downtown shopping district. Purchased at Balch, Price & Co., one of the most exclusive specialty department stores of the time, the rich variety and manipulations of materials in this charming 1889 winter bonnet is exemplary of the great Paris milliner, Berthe.

Artist

Balch, Price & Company|Berthe

Date

1889

Medium

silk, fur, metal, rhinestones

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelia Beard Hollenback, 1966