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Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Courtesy of Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

Left—SAMPLER worked by Christiana Baird. Late eighteenth century American.
Right—MEMORIAL PIECE worked in silks, on white satin. Sacred to the memory of Major Anthony Morse, who died March 22, 1805.

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SAMPLER of Moravian embroidery, worked in 1806, by Sarah Ann Smith, of Smithtown, L. I.