Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
historical costume reproduction, Marilla Lucretia Johnson Miller Daniels, Bogus Brigham, under clothes
College
Fine Arts and Communications
Department
Theatre and Media Arts
Abstract
My project was to research and recreate a dress worn by Marilla Lucretia Johnson Miller Daniels. She helped her husband, William Miller, who is sometimes referred to as a “Bogus Brigham”1 and her father, Aaron Johnson, to found the city of Springville and get the education system in Provo started. Having been a teacher in Nauvoo and in the LDS Church (Primary for ten years and Sunday School for twenty), she supported the work of her first husband to establish education in Provo, and by 1857 there was a school in every district2. She also was an active member of the Utah chapter of the Woman Suffrage Movement and visited Relief Societies throughout the county to educate women on their rights. The picture below is the source I used to recreate Marilla’s dress. This copy comes from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Recommended Citation
DeGuire, Melissa and Farahnakian, Mary
(2013)
"Recreating the Past, an Historical Costume Reproduction: Marilla Lucretia Johnson Miller Daniels,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 2389.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2389