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Sewing frame

Description: Box containing a wooden sewing frame. The lid of the box has a color picture of three girls, two are seated, in a room with draperies. They wear long dresses and are sewing.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Courtship

Description: Pair of framed pictures, hand-colored over print of man and woman; clothing parts of skirt and trousers are cut out and there are pin-head like studs on clothing; back of frame is marked, "Courtship" & "Matrimony"
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Pigment holder

Description: Glass pigment holder with 7 hand-blown corked glass bottles containing powdered pigment; hand-turned wooden stand to hold bottles (a), has a lid with a finial (b); bottles are about 6 cm. high x 1.8 cm. diam.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Very delicate sampler stitched on fine linen with embroidered verse, trees, birds, building, floral designs, geometric designs, and "Watnall School"; stretched on wooden frame and nailed with rusty handmade tacks
Date: 1804
Creator: Allcock, Mary
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Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
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Cotton card

Description: Wooden cotton carders; with metal teeth through pad; marked, "The Only Genuine Old Whittemore Patent Improved No. 10 Cotton"; from the old Glenn Crain Home in McGregor, TX
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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