Highlights : Children : Children's creations

Subcategory Children's creations contains 7 item(s).

	Phelps mourning embroidery 1804 1990.016 The weeping willows and funerary urns Martha "Patty" Phelps painstakingly stitched in this silk-on-silk embroidery recording the deaths of her mother and brother were traditional symbols of mourning in 19th-century America.
	"The Shepherdess of the Alps" embroidery c. 1810 1899.06.02 The romantic and "moral" tale of The Shepherdess of the Alps so captured the imagination of Emily Trowbridge (1793-1872) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, that she painstakingly embroidered on silk a scene from the story.
	Embroidery of Mount Vernon c. 1807 1893.07.21 Caroline Stebbins simultaneously displayed her patriotism, refinement, and embroidery skills in this silk on silk embroidery of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
	Map "The world agreeable to the latest discoveries" c. 1817 1923.10.02 Harriet Goodhue (1799-1874) was about fifteen years old when she drew this world map for her course in cartography at Deerfield Academy.
	Miniature Chest of Drawers 1792 1916.14.24 The miniature 18th century wooden tall chest from Maine is six inches high with a lift top and three working drawers.
	Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler 1798 1893.07.22 This framed needlework sampler was completed by Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon (1789-1865) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, when she was nine years old.
	Hoyt family register 1803-1806 1985.0002 This family register was embroidered with silk threads on a linen ground by Nancy Hoyt (1788-1870) about 1804 to record the vital statistics of her immediate family.