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For sampler enthusiasts

For those of you who love everything sampler, our library just got a book in, "A Maryland sampler, girlhood embroidery 1738-1860", by Gloria Seaman Allen. It was published in 2007 by the Maryland Historical Society, ISBN 9780938420989. List price is $75 and it's

384 p.

From the preface, "My objectives ... were threefold... to present as much information as possible about each embroiderer and her family, ... place the embroiderer in geographical and historical context ... address the perceived dominance of Baltimore in the material culture of Maryland..."

There are some amazing samplers pictured in this book as well as lots of history and quite extensive indexes!

Joan

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Here is a link which lets you see some pictures, and more info than Amazon would.

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book documents the exhibit that was at the Maryland Historical Societyin Baltimore, and which Sue H, Donna, Ericka & I visited - over a year agoon an outing. We were enthralled and spent tons of time there! Some of thesamplers are amazizng, and overall it's really interesting. I've been considering the book for quite a while. Definitely worthwhile for any sampler/history enthusiast. Plus, we learned quite abit about the communities of the 18th/19th century - interesting in that the places which were vital, and had some fine schools are now little, unknown, rural kind of towns. Except of course for Baltimore.

Ellice

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ellice

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