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I've been looking over some family genealogy and found an interesting description of my great-great-grandmother, who was 30 years old at the outbreak of the war. The description was interesting, but there was also a phrase that I am not familiar with. She is described as having "dresden-type features". Here is the whole quote for context:
Rebecca was an aristocrat and "to the manor born". She was slender with dresden-type features, exceptionally small hands and feet. On Sunday the Negroes would line up to watch "Miss Becky strut" when she started to church..."
So, does anybody have any idea what Dresden-type features would mean? My assumption would be that since her full name before marriage was Rebecca H. Smith she was likely of English descent. Even though the descriptive term Dresden is used (and of course Dresden is in Germany) Germans were not very respected or common in most parts of the South at that time (not to mention that Smith is not a German name). Thus, I have come to a possible conclusion as to what the use of the term "dresden-type features" means: Dresden is located in the the part of Germany known as Saxony. Could dresden features mean she had English/Saxon features, probably fair skinned and blond?
I've been looking over some family genealogy and found an interesting description of my great-great-grandmother, who was 30 years old at the outbreak of the war. The description was interesting, but there was also a phrase that I am not familiar with. She is described as having "dresden-type features". Here is the whole quote for context:
Rebecca was an aristocrat and "to the manor born". She was slender with dresden-type features, exceptionally small hands and feet. On Sunday the Negroes would line up to watch "Miss Becky strut" when she started to church..."
So, does anybody have any idea what Dresden-type features would mean? My assumption would be that since her full name before marriage was Rebecca H. Smith she was likely of English descent. Even though the descriptive term Dresden is used (and of course Dresden is in Germany) Germans were not very respected or common in most parts of the South at that time (not to mention that Smith is not a German name). Thus, I have come to a possible conclusion as to what the use of the term "dresden-type features" means: Dresden is located in the the part of Germany known as Saxony. Could dresden features mean she had English/Saxon features, probably fair skinned and blond?
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