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GUSN-51943
Sampler, text in brown letters with black figures. Nancy Owen Marsh was the great-grandmother of the donor and married Horace Gier.
samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
Sampler
"Sampler worked by Nancy Owen Marsh/Born May 24, 1779" (Brown thread)
Marsh, Nancy Owen, 1779- (Embroiderer)
10 1/4 x 12 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mr. George C. Winslow
1941.31
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