Much of the Fine Arts Museums’ historic costume collection has been formed by the generous donation of clothes and accessories from the descendants of San Francisco’s early civic and social leaders. This bonnet once belonged to Ella Wall Goad Hooker, daughter of millionaire lawyer William Frank Goad, and, later, wife of lumberman Charles Osgood Hooker. A prominent society figure, Ella was frequently praised by local press for her feminine charms in the 1880s and 1890s, and lauded as a “rare beauty of person and mind” (Coronado Mercury 1890, 1). In 1886 she embarked on an eight-month grand tour of Europe with her mother, Sarah Cook Goad, during which she may have purchased this bonnet by Mme. Pouyanne—a common shopping practice by affluent Americans abroad in the late nineteenth century (Camerlengo 2017, 168). The bonnet’s harmonious mix of textures and colors makes it an excellent example of the work of Pouyanne, who was well known for her “very artistic combination of colorings” (Millinery Trade Review 1904, 76). With its range of earth tones, it would have also complemented the flaxen features of its former owner. llc