Sylvia Hall's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1810-1820
name: label: maker
content: Hall, Sylvia
notes: label: Description
content: One script alphabet, two block alphabets. 26 letters with two or three styles of some capital letters. Numbers 1 to 0 and to 8. These rows separated by rows of cross-stitch. Border of single row of cross-stitch on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, four-sided, crosslet. THREAD COUNT: warp 23, weft 24/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Zealously pursue the course<br>That leads young minds to god<br>For faith and love & holy hope<br>Point to the blest abode<br>S Hall"<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Sylvia was born on April 18, 1805, to Andrews and Sylvia Blakeslee Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, and she died there in 1859. See her mother's (Sylvia Blakeslee) sampler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prisk
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T16942
label: catalog number
content: T16942
label: accession number
content: 310734
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 10 3/8 in; 38.1 cm x 26.3525 cm