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1709-1791
GUSN-11569
A hand-woven rectangular linen sheet, pieced, with two hand-hemmed ends and two salvage ends.
sheets (bed coverings)
embroidering
linen (material)
weaving
Sheet
Sheet
Embroidered cross-stitch in golden brown along the front edge reads: Anna Willcox was born/March the 10 17[09 or 91].
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Willcox, Anna (Maker)
USA
86 x 69 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1767
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