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Adelia Ann Goshorn
Adelia Ann Goshorn, the daughter of a dry goods merchant, Nicholas Goshorn and his wife Lorenia (Cutter) Goshorn, was born on June 24, 1824. She was their eldest daughter and was baptized in December at the Old Stone Methodist Church, the first church built in the Ohio Valley. The Goshorn family in America began when Johann Georg Goshorn, who was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1725, came to Americ...
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Mary Howe
Mary Howe worked this sampler in 1832; a handsome pictorial piece featuring a large 16th century manor house on a sloping lawn. The castle-like house, with its crenellated roof and red banners waving, sits on a lustrous lawn of brilliant green satin stitch. A pair of trees flanks the scene and a pair of baskets of flowers flank the verse. A blue decorative band was worked under the lawn and above ...
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Delaware Silk Embroidery
American schoolgirls in the Federal period worked stunning silk embroidered pictures that would hang in the stylishly decorated parlors of their parents' homes. Often large in scale and always indicating the advanced talents of their makers, these pictures occasionally capture the essence of American folk art with their sense of whimsy and free-form design. Such is the case with this exuberant sil...
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Two Samplers by Lucinda Beck
Rarely do we find samplers from the same family let alone made by the same person. Lucinda Beck worked these two samplers, stitched five years apart, and fortunately they have remained together. The first was worked in 1831, and is inscribed in large letters, "L BECK 1831." Worked solely in cross stitches, primitive alphabets and decorative bands fill the composition. Across the bottom she stitche...
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Emily Knox
This is an outstanding and aesthetically pleasing Family Record sampler, with the vital statistics worked within a framework formed by a highly creative flowering plant. The stitching indicates a very high level of expertise and was accomplished onto almost impossibly fine linen gauze; clearly both the samplermaker and her teacher were talented needleworkers.
Lebanon and Berwick, small towns in...
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