The collection also includes Sarah Stone’s band sampler (dated 1678), as well as a unique Berlin woolwork picture embroidered by Olevia Rebecca Parker in 1852 at the Lombard Street School, a public school for African American children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sources:
- MONTGOMERY, Florence M. (2007). Textiles in America, 1650–1870: A dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants’ papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth, New York: W. W. Norton & Co..
- SWAN, Susan Burrows (1976). A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework, Winterthur, Del: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
Digital source (retrieved 25 May 2016)
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 25 May 2016)
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