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Alphabet sampler with zig-zag cross stitched border. Rows separated by lines of cross stitching. Upper half letters are slate blue, lower half are yellow. Alphabets: #1 complete plus "&" and "S"; #2 complete; #3 complete. Numbers: "1-11".
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Sampler
"Wrought by Sarah / Snelling Drew / Aged 9 years Boston March / the 17th 1828 "Be virtuous and be H/appy" (Embroidered)
Wilkinson, Sarah Snelling, 1818-1905 (Embroiderer)
Massachusetts
17 x 7 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift from Mrs. Sidney R. Burleigh
1932.508
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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