Object Details
- Leadbeater, Anna
- Description
- Six block alphabets. One double of 26 letters. Numbers through 13. Alphabets and numbers colored in pairs or groups with all rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. No border. Cotton thread on cotton ground. STITCHES: cross, four-sided, double cross, rice, Algerian eye, crosslet. THREAD COUNT: warp 25, weft 25/in.
- Inscription:
- "Anna Leadbeater
to her Father
8 mo 28th
1852.
Age 10" - Background:
- Anna was born on October 2, 1842, to John and Mary P. Stabler Leadbeater in Alexandria, Virginia. John Leadbeater was the owner of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary in Alexandria, which today is an apothecary museum. She married Henry C. Slaymaker, a Civil War veteran, on November 6, 1866, and they had three children—Isabel, Henry C. Jr., and Frank. Henry Sr. died of consumption on February 28, 1880, and Anna died on February 15, 1906.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Clarence Milton Yohn
- 1852
- ID Number
- TE.T12612
- catalog number
- T12612
- accession number
- 235642
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- embroidery (overall production method/technique)
- cotton (thread material)
- cotton (ground material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 31.75 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_639596
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-f2c6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
