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Matchless: Baby Doe Tabor's Wedding Dress Panel Discussion
Join us for an expert panel discussion on the significance and conservation of one of the most famous wedding dresses in Colorado: Baby Doe Tabor’s 1883 Wedding Dress. Listen to experts walk through an extensive conservation plan designed to restore the gown closer to its original condition and preserve it for future display and research.
This panel discussion is a kickoff event for the fundraising efforts to support the conservation of the dress. Click here to learn more about the fundraising effort and donate.
About Baby Doe and Her Wedding Dress
From her humble beginnings, to becoming the famous wife of a silver magnate and US Senator, to perishing penniless and alone in a dilapidated cabin next to the then-defunct Matchless Mine, Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor has become one of the most storied figures in Colorado history. Her tumultuous life has been the subject of movies, operas, and even a chain of novelty restaurants.
Baby Doe’s wedding dress has become symbolic of the arc of her life, from the height of her marriage and happiness to her isolated end. The ornate and richly decorated wedding gown that Baby Doe wore to marry Horace Tabor in Washington, DC in 1883 is rumored to have cost $7,000—nearly $250,000 in today’s dollars! Although Baby Doe sold many of her and Horace’s expensive possessions once they became destitute, she kept the wedding gown throughout her life, storing it in a trunk in her leaky cabin for decades. The Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado) acquired the gown shortly after Baby Doe’s death in 1935.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2509155-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2509155-2
