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| Date: | 1809 |
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| Description: | Embroidered sampler of a map of the United States. |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Punch paper "Home Sweet Home" sampler. |
| Date: | 04 24 1820 |
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| Description: | Embroidered sampler bearing the stitched signature, "El Fisher April 24 1820." Elizabeth Fisher was the half-sister of Jane Fisher Rolette Dousman. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Knitted baby bonnet made with tan cotton yarn and decorated with glass beads. |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Baby mittens knitted of blue and white wool yarn. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Baby mittens knitted of ecru, red and pink wool yarn. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Child's slippers, with ribbon ties, knitted of ecru and blue wool yarn. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Petticoat knitted of yellow, pink, blue, black, and white wool yarn, with a ribbon belt. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E... |
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| Description: | A ukulele made of koa wood and a Bull Durham cigar box. |
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| Description: | Old Abe covered glass compote made by the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport, Ohio. Exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 where ... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t... |
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| Description: | Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings, the quick-step dried and gone to the bone. Embrace the wall and face away from trouble in the winter ... |
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| Description: | Five assorted rectangular presidential political campaign buttons for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. One button is white with a blue stripe th... |
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| Description: | A quilt appliqued with a cherry tree design. The design includes orange and scarlet birds and bright red cherries. There are brown vines and red and yellow... |
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