“Operating out of her New Orleans studio, noted textile conservator Jessica Hack and her assis
“Operating out of her New Orleans studio, noted textile conservator Jessica Hack and her assistants are working to restore the wool officer’s coat worn by Lt. Col. William Sutherland Hamilton in the War of 1812. The Louisiana State Museum is conserving the coat for display during the Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial exhibit, “From Dirty Shirts to Buccaneers: The Battle of New Orleans in American Culture,” opening in the Cabildo on Jan. 11, 2015. Lt. Col. Hamilton saw action on the Great Lakes early in the war and possibly in skirmishes around New Orleans in 1815. He settled in Louisiana and became a prominent planter and politician in West Feliciana Parish. When Hamilton’s descendants offered it to Museum in 1923, the coat was in an advanced state of deterioration.” x -- source link
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