Details
Creator Bell, Emily.
Title Homework Sampler.
Publisher Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Date Ca. 1830
Physical Description Between 2-4 inches.
Notes Eleven samplers, mounted on board in the form of a book, made by Emily Bell while attending the Bethlehem Female Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The sampler includes examples of buttonhole, hemming, and pin-tuck stitches.
Exhibited in: The Library Company's exhibitions, The Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in American Popular Culture, 1840-1876, (2001) and The Home Sewing Machine: America's "Queen of Inventions" (2009).
Subject Bethlehem Female Seminary.
Needlework.
Women -- Education.
Genre Sampler.
Location OBJ 870
Accession number OBJ 870