DRESS

Description: CHILD'S YELLOW DRESS. HAS SHORT SLEEVES WHICH ARE GATHERED AT SHOULDER SEAM AND ARMHOLE. ARMHOLE IS TRIMMED WITH A THIN, LIGHT BLUE PIPING. SAME PIPING TRIMS NECKLINE AND FRONT OF BODICE. CENTER FRONT OF NECKLINE HAS A LIGHT BLUE RIBBON. DRESS HAS AN EMPIRE WAIST. WAISTLINE IS FORMED INTO MANY TINY PLEATS, WITH FOUR LINES OF STITCHING GOING ACROSS THEM HORIZONTALLY. BELOW WAISTLINE SKIRT IS GATHERED. BACK OF BODICE IS OPEN; HAS 2 IVORY BUTTONS FOR CLOSURES.

History: ITEMS CAME FROM THE HOME OF PEARL AND JACOB LIEBELT, WHO LIVED IN WARNER, FARMED EAST OF WARNER, AND RETIRED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1996. PEARL WAS BORN IN WARNER TO GEORGE AND ETTA MAE WOITTE, SEPTEMBER 19, 1918. JACOB WAS BORN IN ANAMOOSE, NORTH DAKOTA AUGUST 1, 1910. JACOB WENT TO WORK AT THE AGE OF 12 OR 13 IN THE MILK RIVER AND WARNER AREA. EVENTUALLY MET AND MARRIED PEARL WOITTE, NOVEMBER 12, 1938, AND BUILT A SUBSTANTIAL FARMING OPERATION. PEARL WAS SECRETARY OF THE WARNER SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS VERY INVOLVED IN THE ALBERTA WOMEN'S INSTITUTE, WOMEN'S INSTITUTE GIRLS CLUB, AND FARM WOMEN'S UNION OF ALBERTA. SHE WAS ALWAYS VERY PROPERLY DRESSED WITH HATS AND GLOVES WHEN SHE ATTENDED LOCAL FUNCTIONS. JACOB WAS VERY INVOLVED IN FARMING, SPORTS, LIONS CLUB, AND ELKS CLUB. SEE P20010047001 FOR LIEBELT FAMILY HISTORY AND P20010047047 FOR DONOR (ELAINE LIEBELT) HISTORY. ___________ AT THE GALT’S REQUEST, DONOR ELAINE LIEBELT PROVIDED MORE DETAILS WITH REGARDS TO HER FAMILY'S AND HER OWN USE OF RESPECTIVE OBJECTS IN THE LIEBELT COLLECTION ON 31 AUGUST 2011. HER ORIGINAL COMMENTS AS TO THIS OBJECT ARE AS FOLLOWS: “WE ARE NOT SURE IF THESE ARE DRESSES MADE BY PEARL FOR MAX AND ELAINE OR IF THEY WERE MADE FOR PEARL BY GRANDMA WOITTE. MAXINE AND ELAINE WERE DRESSED IN THESE DRESSES AS INFANTS. AFTER ALL THE CHILDREN GREW OUT OF THEM, MAXINE AND ELAINE USED THEM AS DOLL DRESSES.”