Olive Howard's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Howard, Olive
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Olive Howard, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 48, weft 48/ in. The stitches used are cross, tent, and hem. The inscription is: “Olive Howard.” Olive Howard was born September 20, 1810, to Dr Nathaniel and Olive Brown Howard in Temple, New Hampshire. She died February 14, 1846, at Newton, Massachusetts and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. See her mother's (TE*T18586) and sister Mary's (TE*T18587) 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.T18585
label: catalog number
content: T18585.000
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: cotton and silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 14.605 cm