Saturday, June 13, 2015
Mary Roe (18211904)
Probably taught by Eliza McKay at the Frederica Academy Kent County, Delaware 1835 Image courtesy of M. Finkel & Daughter Collection of the DAR Museum
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Biggs Museum, 406 Federal Street, Dover, DE
Please bring your eighteenth and/or nineteenth-century samplers and any supporting family information to one of the two Sampler Identification Days to be photographed and documented by the Delaware Sampler Discovery Group. If you have more than two samplers, please make an appointment by contacting Ryan Grover at 302-674-2111, extension 108 or email rgrover@biggsmuseum.org. Volunteers will be available to help transport your samplers.
The catalogue for a recent exhibition, Wrought with Careful Hand: Ties of Kinship on Delaware Samplers by Lynne Anderson and Gloria Seaman Allen will be available for purchase in the gift shop of the Biggs Museum.