Anna Leadbeater's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1852
name: label: maker
content: Leadbeater, Anna
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Anna Leadbeater, dating to 1853, is stitched with cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 23, weft 32/ in. The stitches used are cross, double cross, rice, and Algerian eye. The inscription is “Anna Leadbeater’s / Work / Aged 9 Alexandria, VA / 1852.” Anna Leadbeater was born on October 2, 1842, to John and Mary P. Stabler Leadbeater in Alexandria, Virginia. John Leadbeater was the owner of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary in Alexandria, which today is an apothecary museum. She married Henry C. Slaymaker, a Civil War veteran, on November 6, 1866, and they had three children - Isabel, Henry C. Jr, and Frank. Henry, Sr. died of consumption on February 28, 1880, and Anna died on February 15, 1906, in Alexandria, Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Clarence Milton Yohn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12611
label: catalog number
content: T12611
label: accession number
content: 235642
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 8 in; 34.29 cm x 20.32 cm