Agnes Hofman Baldwin White portrait photograph   Save
Ohio History Connection
Description: This photograph shows Agnes Hofman Baldwin White seated and wearing a white satin gown, tiara with veil and ostrich plumes, ostrich feather fan and lamé train. She wears large, dangling earrings and gloves that extend above her elbows. The dress was designed and made by Reville, dressmakers to Queen Mary, which she wore at Buckingham Palace when presented at the court of St. James by Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The dress is now part of the Ohio Historical Society museum collections, catalog number H 32777. Mrs. Baldwin became the wife of former Ohio Governor George White in 1936. She was said to be a great-great niece of Governor Arthur St. Clair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05124
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Politicians; Dresses; Clothing and dress; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Governors--Ohio; First ladies
Places: Ohio History Connection