Susan Jane Thompson Deuel's crazy patchwork needle book, ca. 1880
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1880
name: label: maker
content: Deuel, Susan Thompson
notes: label: Description
content: A crazy quilt style needlecase, with an inside Kate Greenaway design from Briggs & Co book of patterns, page 100 #519. Briggs & Co. was founded in 1874. They invented the iron-on method for transferring an embroidery design onto a piece of fabric. Kate Greenaway was an English artist and illustrator/writer of children's book, cards, calendars and much more. Her subjects mainly consisted of children, young girls, flowers, and landscapes. Kate’s books were very popular in both Britain and America. Her artwork has endured and is still in print today. She was born in London, March 17, 1846 and died November 6, 1901.
label: Description
content: The needlecase was embroidered by Susan Jane Thompson ca. 1880 who married John W. Deuel on March 15, 1853 in Gowanda, New York. She was born on March 9, 1830 in Derby, Connecticut to Ezra and Cornelia Baldwin Thompson and died on July 21, 1903 in Van Wies Point, New York. They had three daughters – Harriet, Bertha, and Sarah.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. A. S. Guimaraes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18171
label: catalog number
content: T18171.000
label: accession number
content: 1977.0179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: needlework case
label: Object Name
content: needle book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
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content: ribbon (overall material)
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content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery floss (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 9 in; 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm