Mary M. Meem's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1836
name: label: maker
content: Meem, Mary M.
notes: label: Description
content: Worked in pink, green, blue, beige, cream, tan, brown, gold, and black thread. Decorated with central flowering cornucopia above bird and inscription, all enclosed within strawberry queen-stitch border. Silk embroidery on plain-weave linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, queen, straight. THREAD COUNT: warp 30, weft 28/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Mary M. Meem<br>finished this work in her fifteenth year<br>of her age<br>George Town D.C<br>A.D 1836"<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Mary Margaret was born on October 17, 1821, to George A. and Rebecca Ann Mudd Meem in Georgetown, D.C. She married Seth Nichols as his second wife on April 8, 1842, and they had seven children—Clayton, Charles, Catherine, Caroline, Tillman, Ann, and Seth. He was a tailor, and they lived in Frederick, Maryland. Sometime after Seth's death on June 14, 1871, she moved back to Georgetown, D.C., and died there on October 27, 1889. She is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Georgetown
topic: label: depicted
content: Birds
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0246.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0246
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0246.01
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: 20 5/8 in x 17 1/4 in; 52.3875 cm x 43.815 cm