Maryon Allen at her home on Cliff Road in Birmingham, Alabama, with three wedding dresses belonging to women of the Bankhead family.
She used the dresses (the earliest of which was from 1866) to create a new gown for Elizabeth Perry Baker of Montgomery. (That dress is now part of the museum collection of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.) After the death of her husband, Senator James B. Allen, in June 1978, Governor...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/127427 |