The name Lottie Barton is unrecognized today. But in the 1890s, in the fashionable households of Mount Vernon and Charles Street, she was a force. As Baltimore’s most successful dress designer — newspapers called her a “modiste” — she employed more than 80 seamstresses in a her fashion salon at…
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'A leading force in shaping the sartorial identity of the city': Unraveling the threads of Lottie Barton's life
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