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Known as Ada's Millinery, this building is typical of the shops found in small and large towns.  In earlier years, women were never in public places without a hat or bonnet.  It was very important item of dress and hat making was an elegant professi

on. 

The shopkeeper may also have been a seamstress, using a treadle machine and pattern forms like these.

On the full-length mannequin is a 1906 hand sewn graduation dress worn by Lotus Williams, a first year Annandale student, graduating with a class of seniors from the high school.

22) Millinery Shop