Elizabeth Shermer's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1833
name: label: maker
content: Shermer, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: One lower-case alphabet; six block alphabets; 26 letters. Numbers 1 through 17. Three practice eyelets, one worked in red cotton, two worked in red wool. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, tent, four-sided, eyelet, upright cross. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 39/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Elizabeth Shermer's<br>work done in the<br>eleventh year of her<br>age<br>1833"<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: This may be the Elizabeth Shermer who was born to Anthony and Anna Barbara Diehl Shermer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sixth alphabet on her sampler is very unusual and has been found on other Pennsylvania samplers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: World
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Katherine K. Olsen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0856.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0856
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0856.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabroc material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 39.0525 cm x 40.9575 cm