The Goodwood Plantation located in Tallahassee, Florida is one of the state's premier sites. At the time of this study it was being restored to its 1920s splendor, the time period when it was purchased by Senator William Cabot Hodges and his young wife, Margaret. / The purpose of this research was to provide information about the historic costume collection of the Goodwood Plantation in regard to its individual parts, the people it represents, and the ways in which the data obtained can contribute to the overall interpretation of the people represented in the costume collection and the Goodwood Plantation. The data were obtained from computer sorts generated using the various catalog terms from the costume collection computer database. / The costume collection contains 797 objects and spans 150 years. It represents the objects Margaret and many of her family members accumulated over their lifetimes and was used to construct meanings about them which may have otherwise remained unknown. In order to understand the people represented by the objects in the collection it was important to understand the most personal of their possessions, their clothing. This intimate portrait of Margaret and her family members can be utilized by future researchers studying other aspects of the Goodwood Plantation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3279. / Major Professor: Carol E. Avery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77517 |
| Contributors | Koontz, Marcy Leigh., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 140 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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