Susan Delano's 1855 Ceylon mission school presentation sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Mission school presentation sampler; Ceylon 1855, Susan E. Delano, Oodoopitty Female Boarding School (ABCFM mission school), Jaffna Province, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
label: Description
content: ABCFM missionary presentation sampler created by a Tamil girl given the name Susan E. Delano by her teacher, Laura Weld Delano Lord (1827-TBD). This sampler measures about 11 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches. In 1850, Laura married Nathan Lynde Lord (1821-1868), a physician and missionary. They served at the Oodoopitty mission school in Jaffna province in Ceylon for a number of years until c1856, then served in a similar capacity at Madras, India before their return to the USA in the early 1860's. The sampler comes with family photos of teacher Laura Weld Delano Lord, husband Nathan Lynde Lord and their two children, Laura and Edwin, taken in 1863 after the missionary couple returned to New York.
label: Description
content: Like the Oodooville sampler (2016.0181.2), this is a remarkable survivor of the 19th century worldwide missionary movement. The missionary couple Laura and Nathan Lord served the ABCFM mission in both Oodoopitty, Jaffna Province, Ceylon and in Madras, India. It is believed the couple brought the sampler back with them to the USA upon their return in the early 1860's. The sampler maker stitched both the place name Oodoopitty, Jaffna, Ceylon, AND Stowe, Vermont, the native town of Laura Weld Delano.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sri Lanka: Northern, Jaffna
topic: label: Subject
content: Needlework
label: Subject
content: Christianity
label: Subject
content: Protestantism
label: Subject
content: Missions, Foreign
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Religion
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0181.03.A
label: accession number
content: 2016.0181
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0181.03A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cross stitch (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 29.845 cm x 31.75 cm