Sally Precinda Chaffee's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1849
name: label: maker
content: Chaffee, Sally Precinda
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features two block alphabets of 26 letters, with numbers to 8. Below the alphabets is the inscription:
label: Description
content: <br>“Sally Precinda Chaffee 1849<br>11 years of Age”<br>
label: Description
content: This sampler was not done on fabric but on perforated paper, a light weight card that first became available in the 1820s and was commonly used for bookmarks and mottos. The sampler is stitched with cotton and wool embroidery thread on perforated paper with a count of 15/in. The stitches used are cross and tent.
label: Description
content: Sally Precinda Chaffee was born on September 6, 1838, to Samuel and Ursula Selenda James Chaffee in Berkshire, Franklin county, Vermont. She died unmarried on August 30, 1857, in Berkshire, Vermont.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont
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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 Mrs. Grace Chaffee Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09688
label: catalog number
content: T9688
label: accession number
content: 173352
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, perforated cardboard
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: perforated paper (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in; 20.0025 cm x 26.035 cm