Carte de Visite photograph of Laura Weld Delano Lord and her son, Edwin, 1863
date: label: date made
content: 1863
notes: label: Description
content: Carte de Visite photograph of Laura Weld Delano Lord and her son Edwin, 1863. This photograph accompanies an ABCFM missionary presentation sampler created by a Tamil girl given the name Susan E. Delano by her teacher, Laura Weld Delano Lord (1827-TBD), whose photograph this is.. 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 family photos of teacher Laura Weld Delano Lord, husband Nathan Lynde Lord and their two children, Laura and Edwin, were taken in 1863 after the missionary couple returned to New York. 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
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Vendor: Neverbird Antiques
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0181.03.B
label: accession number
content: 2016.0181
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0181.03B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carte de visite
label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm