Letter about WWI French stitchery
date: label: date made
content: 1916-06
notes: label: Description
content: Letter from Mercy Richards Essig (Mrs. Norman Sturgis Essig), 1700 Locust Street, Philadelphia. Signed June 1916. The letter was sent with embroidered items from France made during World War I, purchased through the Society for Employment of Women in France. Mrs. Essig describes the living and working conditions of the peasant women in French Lorraine who embroider the linens in order to provide for themselves and their families while the war rages on around them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: French WWI Stitchery
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift in honor of Elizabeth Dayton Johnson Napier (Mrs. George Ferry Napier) and Helen Napier Mayers (Mrs. D. Alexander Mayers)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0086.21
label: accession number
content: 2011.0086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0086.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 7 in; 22.86 cm x 17.78 cm