Mary Howard's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Howard, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Mary Howard, dating to 1826, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 24, weft 25/ in. The stitches used are cross, and crosslet. The inscription is: "Wrought AD 1826 by Mary Howard aged nine years / Diligence and industry and proper improvement of time / are material duties of the young.” Mary Howard was born 4 February 1817, to Dr. Nathaniel and Olive Brown Howard in New Hampshire, and married July 16, 1840, Roswell Willard Turner (1815-1901) in Boston, Massachusetts. They had two children – George Francis (1846-1847) and Mary Elisabeth (1848-1849). Mary died September 5, 1889 at Dorchester, Massachusetts and is buried in Newton, Massachusetts. See her mother's (TE*T18586) and sister Olive's (TE*T18585) samplers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18587
label: catalog number
content: T18587.000
label: accession number
content: 248268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 12 1/8 in; 24.4475 cm x 30.7975 cm