Dowry Collection

May Goelet (Duchess of Roxburghe) as a little girl
Miss Mary ( May ) Goelet, American heiress, who married Henry Innes-Kerr, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903, becoming Duchess of Roxburghe and bringing with her a dowry of some $20 million

Ada Blanche, actress, as Dick Whittington, Drury Lane. Theatrical portrait as Dick Whittington. I have come back from China's distant shore, With diamonds, rubies and with gold galore

Comic postcard, Scene at a matrimonial agency Date: 20th century

Loom. 19th century. Hungary
Loom for making rugs for the dowry of Hungarian women. 19th century. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

C16 Marriage Dowry
Germany : Before the wedding can take place, the brides dowry is brought in a cart to the grooms home Date: early 16th century

Miss May Goelet
Front cover of the Tatler - America and the Peerage - Miss Mary ( May ) Goelet, American heiress, who married Henry Innes-Kerr, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903

Trousseau of the Duchess of Roxburghe
A huge stack of trunks, portmanteaux, dress baskets and suitcases representing the substantial trousseau of Miss Mary Goelet, American heiress, who married Henry Innes-Kerr

Bethlehem Bride
A young bride wearing her dowry and traditional wedding dress, Bethlehem, Jerusalem. Date: early 1930s

MAUPASSSANT / LE DOT
Jeanne in the omnibus

Dowry Chest
A bride-to-be shows off her DOWRY CHEST - linen for board and bed, for apron, bust, or head as her contribution to the future home

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