Mount Mary University Digital Collections

Sister Aloyse Hessburg with Mrs. Robb's dress

Item

Sister Aloyse and Robb Dress.jpg

Title

Sister Aloyse Hessburg with Mrs. Robb's dress

Description

Sister Aloyse Hessburg, SSND, of Mount Mary College stands with the dress she designed, made, and fitted on Mrs. Frances Howard Robb (wife of James Robb), worn at the White House wedding of Mrs. Robb's son Charles Robb to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, on December 9, 1967.

The picture was likely taken at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

This photograph appeared in the Sunday Post-Tribune on March 17, 1968. No photographer was credited. It may have also appeared in other newspapers; it was likely an AP or UPI photograph.

Relation

Dress (Object ID #1967.01)

Date

ca. 1967

Source

School Sisters of Notre Dame North American Archives

Identifier

https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/add443fa2a25dea00313dad7ee18b4c8.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Subject

Fashion design

Type

Still Image

Format

JPEG

Spatial Coverage

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Citation

“Sister Aloyse Hessburg with Mrs. Robb's dress,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed December 21, 2024, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/1455.