Caroline Lodge's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Lodge, Caroline
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Caroline Lodge, dating to 1809, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 26, weft 32/ in. The stitches used are cross and hem. The inscription is: “Caroline Lodge Aged 8 ys." Caroline Lodge was born on May 25, 1801 to Giles (1770 – 1852) and Abigail Harris Langdon (1776 –1846) Lodge in Boston, Massachusetts. She died unmarried January 22, 1863. Relatives include Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his grandson U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
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 Miss Louisa R. Alger.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12707
label: catalog number
content: T12707.000
label: accession number
content: 239090
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: 11 3/4 in x 10 in; 29.845 cm x 25.4 cm