"In 1921 The National Society of The Colonial Dames in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts published American Samplers, by Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eve Johnston Coe. This book contains some 2,500 descriptions of samplers, and is still considered today the most comprehensive listing of samplers ever compiled. Since that time much has been discovered about the teachers and students that created these beautiful needleworks, many more have surfaced and the awareness of their existence much greater. So here we are some 85 years later conducting another survey that will include samplers in museums, historical societies, individual collections, as well as those owned by the NSCDA Museum Houses, our members and friends."
If you own a sampler, you can particpate in their survey here: