The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Swan, Susan Burrows            

Title:               Papers

Dates:             1975-2001

Call No.:         Col. 725

Acc. No.:        04x46

Quantity:        68 boxes

Location:        35 G 1-6, H 2-6, I 7

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Susan Burrows Swan, a textile curator at Winterthur Museum, was born, raised, and educated in Ohio, graduating from Ohio State University with a B.S. in home economics, with a specialty in textile and clothing design.  She took graduate courses at the University of Delaware and twice attended programs offered by the Attingham Trust in England.  Mrs. Swan began her career at Winterthur Museum in 1961 as a senior guide and then became assistant registrar in 1970, associate registrar in 1975, associate curator in charge of textiles in 1979, and curator in 1987.  She retired on June 30, 1991.

 

Mrs. Swan lectured widely and authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles on needlework.  Her books include Plain & Fancy: American Women and their Needlework (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977; reprinted with different photos in 1995 by Curious Works Press), A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework (New York: Crown Publishers, 1976), and, with Mary Taylor Landon, American Crewelwork (New York: Macmillan, 1970).  She also curated or co-curated several exhibitions, highlighting collection objects at Winterthur, including one on the arts of the Pennsylvania Germans and another on mourning customs.  Mrs. Swan taught in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (WPEAC), offered workshops for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, and lectured widely at museums and historical societies throughout the United States.

 

Mrs. Swan was a member of Phi Upsilon Omicron, the Needlework and Bobbin Club, the New York Rug Society, and the American Ceramic Circle.  She received an alumnae achievement award from Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and served on the sorority’s museum board.  She was married to L. Delmar Swan, who worked for the Dupont Company; they had two sons.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The collection includes Susan Swan’s research notes, correspondence, book drafts, articles she wrote, texts of lectures, slides, photographs, and a few publications collected by her.  The research notes focus on her interests in American needlework, sewing tools, the use of textiles in domestic interiors, female accomplishments, women’s lives, schools for girls, and pet animals, focusing on the 18th and early 19th centuries..  Included with the research notes are copies of period newspaper ads referring to needlework, schools, and animals.  Mrs. Swan began a list of girls’ schools for the time period.  As well, the collection includes information about textiles owned by the Winterthur Museum.  Mrs. Swan worked with Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority to furnish a 19th century house, and information about that task is also found.  The collection includes a scrap of embroidered fabric from ca.1785-1820 and a sampler of embroidery stitches made by Mrs. Swan.  Also included are four sketchbooks of embroidery designs drawn by Sue Swan.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The collection is divided into three series: research files; talks and lectures; and slides, videotapes and publications.  The research files are in alphabetical order, with the exception of three oversize folders filed at the end.  A box of note cards is also included with this series.  The talks and lectures series includes the texts of talks and lectures given by Susan Swan, as well as correspondence about the lectures.  Most of the slides are related to needlework and textiles, but the collection also includes some family scenes, furniture, silhouettes, portraits, and other subjects. 

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Susan Burrows Swan.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Baldwin, Jabez C., 1777-1819.

            Honeywell, Martha Ann, ca.1787-ca.1848.

 

Topics:

            Embroiderers’ Guild of America.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Kappa Kappa Gamma.

            Bedding.

            Clothing and dress.

Crewelwork – Patterns.

Embroidery – Design.

            Floor coverings.

            Interior decoration – 18th century.

            Interior decoration – 19th century.

            Lace and lace making – United States.

            Mourning customs – United States.

            Needlework – Equipment and supplies.

            Needlework – Europe.

            Needlework – Great Britain.

            Needlework – United States.

            Pets.

            Quilts – United States.

            Samplers – Great Britain.

            Samplers – United States.

            Schools – United States.

            Silhouettes – United States.

            Textile fabrics.

            Textile fabrics – Specimens.

            Upholstery.

Women – Education.

 

Black-and-white photographs.

Clippings.

Color photographs.

            Drafts (preliminary versions).

            Lectures.

            Letters.

            Research notes.

            Slides.

            Curators.

           


 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 35 G 1-6, H 2-6, I 7

 

 

Series I: Research files and note cards

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          American Crewelwork, by Mary Taylor Landon and Susan B. Swan

 

Folder 2:          American Crewelwork: original artwork

 

Folder 3:          American Crewelwork: photos

 

Folder 4:          American interiors, 1650-1850

 

Folder 5:          American interiors: outline and bibliography

 

Folder 6:          American needlework: connoisseurship, collecting, fakes and forgeries

 

Folder 7:          Amusements, holidays

 

Folders 8-9:     Animals: birds (including canaries, geese, parrots) and deer

 

 

Box 2:

 

Folder 1:          Animals: cages, collars

 

Folder 2:          Animals: cats, squirrels, fawns, turtles, mice

 

Folder 3:          Animals: dogs: laws, bites of mad dogs, stories, training

 

Folder 4:          Animals: dogs: Newfoundland, mastiff, bull, bull mastiff, English setter

 

Folder 5:          Animals: dogs: no breed, or miscellaneous

 

Folder 6:          Animals: dogs: no type given, references to more than one breed

 

Folder 7:          Animals: dogs: pointers, Russian pointer, coach

 

Folder 8:          Animals: dogs: spaniels (water, land, King Charles, springing)

 

Folder 9:          Animals: dogs: terrier, beagle, lap, foxhound, hound, bloodhound, greyhound, shepherd

 

Folder 10:        Animals: freaks, acts

 

 

Box 3:

 

Folder 1:          Animals: horses, vet surgeon, horse doctor, cruelty, illness

 

Folder 2:          Architecture

 

Folder 3:          Articles on other museums’ needlework (various forms)

 

Folder 4:          Athenaeum Symposium, 1993

 

Folder 5:          Auction catalog: Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers

 

Folders 6-7:     Baldwin, Jabez

 

Folder 8:          Bead work

 

Folder 9:          Bed rugs, hand and loom made

 

Folder 10:        Beds, cradles, bed hangings: Federal, Empire

 

Folder 11:        Beds, cradles, bed hangings: general, textiles, multiple references, etc.

 

 

Box 4:

 

Folder 1:          Beds, cradles, bed hangings: hangings for Chippendale bed chamber

 

Folder 2:          Beds, cradles, bed hangings: Queen Anne and Chippendale beds

 

Folder 3:          Beds, cradles, bed hangings: Queen Anne and Chippendale curtains

 

Folder 4:          Beds, cradles, bed hangings: roping a Pennsylvania German bed

 

Folder 5:          Beds, cradles, bed hangings: 17th century, William and Mary

 

Folder 6:          Berlin and merino wool

 

Folder 7:          Bibliographies for needlework

 

Folder 8:          Blackwork

 

Folder 9:          Blankets, embroidered and woven (including rose)

 

Folder 10:        Book list on embroidery, etc.

 

Folder 11:        Book reviews

 

Folder 12:        Books by, for, or about women

 

Folder 13:        Broderie anglaise, Ayrshire, etc.

 

Folder 14:        Candlewicking

 

Folder 15:        Canvas work and catgut

 

Folder 16:        Canvas work and catgut: Philadelphia

 

 

Box 5:

 

Folder 1:          Ceramics, European: research

 

Folder 2:          Charity

 

Folders 3-4:     Childhood

 

Folder 5:          Chinese export paintings, porcelain, fabrics, etc.

 

Folder 6:          Chinese trade porcelain: research

 

Folder 7:          Clocks

 

Folder 8:          Coats of arms and hatchments

 

Folder 9:          Colonial Williamsburg

 

 

 

Box 6:

 

Folder 1:          Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, 1998, 1999

 

Folder 2:          Colors

 

Folder 3:          Connecticut crewelwork

 

Folder 4:          Connecticut samplers

 

Folder 5:          Connecticut scenic pictures

 

Folder 6:          Connoisseurship and fakes

 

Folder 7:          Conservation: “First Aid for Framed Textiles,” by S.B. Swan

 

Folder 8:          Coverlets

 

Folder 9:          Crochet, knotting

 

Folder 10:        Darning

 

Folder 11:        Definitions

 

Folder 12:        Delaware Antiques Show

 

Folder 13:        Demographic information

 

 

Box 7:

 

Folders 1-3:     Delaware samplers

 

Folder 4:          Documented interiors

 

Folder 5:          Dolls

 

Folder 6:          Dos Tejedoras

 

Folder 7:          Drinker, Elizabeth

 

Folder 8:          Dry cleaning

 

Folder 9:          du Pont, H.F.: correspondence about textiles, etc. [copies]

 

Folder 10:        du Pont, H.F.: needlework purchases

 

Folder 11:        du Pont, William: bed hangings and window curtains

 

Folder 12:        Elderhostel

 

Folder 13:        Embroiderers’ Guild (England)

 

Folder 14:        Embroiderers’ Guild of America

 

Folder 15:        Embroiderers’ Guild of America: “Embroidery and Textile Research” – class at Winterthur

 

Folder 16:        Embroiderers’ Guild of America: “Needlework at Winterthur Museum” slide program (script)

 

 

Box 8:

 

Folder 1:          Embroiderers’ Guild of America: Winterthur weekend

 

Folder 2:          Embroidery: revivals

 

Folder 3:          Embroidery, silk: research

 

Folder 4:          English ceramics course, London, Aug./Sept. 1995

 

Folder 5:          English and European samplers and needlework

 

Folders 6-7:     English needlework: canvas, crewel

 

Folder 8:          English printed textiles

 

Folder 9:          Fabric: moreen, Tammie, durent, camblet, calamanco, and Florence Montgomery

 

Folder 10:        Fabrics in America

 

Folder 11:        Federal silk work (not mourning): black background

 

Folder 12:        Federal silk work (not mourning): Connecticut

 

 

Box 9:

 

Folder 1:          Federal silk work (not mourning): Massachusetts

 

Folder 2:          Federal silk work (not mourning): Miss Liberty

 

Folder 3:          Federal silk work (not mourning): New Jersey

 

Folder 4:          Federal silk work (not mourning): New York

 

Folder 5:          Federal silk work (not mourning): Pennsylvania (mostly Folwell)

 

Folder 6:          Federal silk work (not mourning): Rhode Island

 

Folder 7:          Federal silk work (not mourning): unknown, miscellaneous articles, print sources

 

Folder 8:          Fellows pre-course, collecting, dealers, etc.

 

Folder 9:          Fikioris, Margaret

 

Folders 10-11:             Floor coverings and carpets (non-Oriental)   

 

Folder 12:        Floor rugs: hand-made: hooked, appliquéd, canvas, etc.

 

Folder 13:        Flowers, gardening

 

 

Box 10:

 

Folder 1:          Folk art at Winterthur

 

Folder 2:          Food, cooking, table linens

 

Folder 3:          Frames

 

Folder 4:          Frames for needlework; frames to work

 

Folder 5:          French woven fabric, printed French textiles, textile terms

 

Folder 6:          Funny quotations

 

Folder 7:          Furnishings Curator Affinity Group

 

Folder 8:          Furniture, cabinetmaking

 

Folder 9:          Furniture, Victorian

 

Folder 10:        Furniture with original upholstery; reproduction fabrics used in museums

 

Folder 11:        Glass and glasses

 

Folder 12:        “Glossary of Needlework Terms,” 1971, 1975 – compiled by Susan B. Swan

                        [see also folder: Needlework Stitches and Terms]

 

Folder 13:        Hamilton, Alexander

 

Folder 14:        Hancock headcloth

 

Folder 15:        Head, Kathy: “Stuck on Pins and Needles”

 

 

Box 11:

 

Folder 1:          Health

 

Folder 2:          Historic Hampton (Towson, Md.)

 

Folder 3:          Historical comments about needlework

 

Folder 4:          Honeywell, Mary Ann (b.ca.1792)

                        [sic, i.e. Honeywell, Martha Ann, ca.1787-ca.1848]

 

Folder 5:          Indian chintz and copies

 

Folder 6:          Interior descriptions

 

Folder 7:          Interior descriptions: Federal, Empire - window

 

Folder 8:          Interior descriptions: furniture arrangement

 

Folder 9:          Irish stitch

 

Folders 10-11:             Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity

 

 

Box 12:

 

Folder 1:          Knitting

 

Folder 2:          “Lace: A History,” by Santina Levey [photocopy]

 

Folders 3-4:     Lace: Dresden work, bobbin, point, net, etc.

 

Folder 5:          Lecture notes

 

Folder 6:          Lectures heard

 

Folder 7:          Letters, memos, etc. – copies

 

 

Box 13:

 

Folder 1:          M. Finkel & Daughter

 

Folder 2:          Maine samplers

 

Folder 3:          Male embroiderers, female professionals, apprentices

 

Folder 4:          Map and globe samplers

 

Folder 5:          Marseilles work, mock quilting, etc.

 

Folder 6:          Maryland and Washington, D.C., samplers and needlework

 

Folder 7:          Massachusetts fishing lady pictures

 

Folder 8:          Massachusetts needlework pictures (not fishing ladies)

 

Folders 9-10:   Massachusetts samplers

 

 

Box 14:          

 

Folder 1:          Massachusetts samplers: apple tree

 

Folder 2:          Massachusetts samplers: Nantucket

 

Folder 3:          Massachusetts samplers: paper by Kathy Epstein

 

Folder 4:          Material to research

 

Folders 5-6:     Miniatures (portraits)

 

Folder 7:          Miscellaneous 

 

Folder 8:          Miscellaneous notes [from an untitled notebook]

 

Folder 9:          Miscellaneous photographs: furniture, ceramics, etc.

 

 

Box 15:

 

Folder 1:          Moravians and Pennsylvania needlework

 

Folders 2-3:     Mourning, death, widowhood           

 

Folder 4:          Mourning, death, widowhood: research used for mourning exhibit

 

Folder 5:          Mourning exhibit at Winterthur: “Sacred to the Memory”

 

Folder 6:          Mourning pictures: Connecticut

 

Folder 7:          Mourning pictures: Folwell, G. & S.

 

 

Box 16:

 

Folder 1:          Mourning pictures: Maryland and southern

 

Folder 2:          Mourning pictures: Massachusetts

 

Folder 3:          Mourning pictures: New York

 

Folder 4:          Mourning pictures: New York: Albany group

 

Folder 5:          Mourning pictures: Pennsylvania

 

Folder 6:          Mourning pictures: research

 

Folder 7:          Mourning pictures: Rhode Island, Balch school

 

Folder 8:          Mourning pictures: unknown

 

Folder 9:          Mourning pictures: Vermont and Maine

 

Folder 10:        Mourning pictures: Washington tomb

           

Folder 11:        Multiple references to sewing

 

Folder 12:        Needles, needle cases, knitting sheaths, sewing birds, chatelaines

 

Folder 13:        Needlework

 

Folder 14:        Needlework: collecting and fakes

 

Folders 15-16:             Needlework: photographs (folders 1-2 of 3)

 

 

Box 17:          

 

Folder 1:          Needlework: photographs (folder 3 of 3)

 

Folder 2:          Needlework: reproduction

 

Folder 3:          Needlework and sewing tools: photographs

 

Folder 4:          Needlework at Winterthur: Canvas work

 

Folder 5:          Needlework at Winterthur: Crewelwork

 

Folders 6-7:     Needlework at Winterthur: Hatchments, silk on silk, other, samplers, show towels, Dresden work, tambour, mourning

 

 

Box 18:

 

Folder 1:          Needlework at Winterthur: lists

 

Folder 2:          Needlework at Winterthur: Quilts, stuffed, candlewicked, bed rugs, Berlin work, knitted

 

Folder 3:          Needlework at Winterthur: Quilts: one-piece, pieced, appliquéd, multiple techniques

 

Folder 4:          Needlework at Winterthur: Stuffed and corded work, miscellaneous

 

Folder 5:          Needlework correspondence

 

Folder 6:          Needlework in other museums

 

Folder 7:          Needlework on paper, watch backs

 

Folder 8:          Needlework outline

 

Folder 9:          Needlework pictures

 

 

Box 19:

 

Folder 1:          Needlework research: Foote, Morris, etc.

 

Folder 2:          Needlework stitches

 

Folder 3:          “Needlework Stitches and Terms,” by S.B. Swan

                        [see also folder: Glossary of Needlework Terms]

 

Folder 4:          Needlework terms - unknown

 

Folder 5:          Negroes

 

Folder 6:          Netting and lacework

 

Folders 7-8:     New England crewel embroidery      

 

Folder 9:          New Hampshire samplers

 

Folder 10:        New Jersey samplers and needlework

 

 

Box 20:

 

Folder 1:          New York samplers and needlework

 

Folder 2:          Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, etc., samplers and needlework

 

Folder 3:          Oriental and tribal rugs, with maps

 

Folder 4:          Oriental rugs

 

Folder 5:          Osaki, Amy B.: “The Needle’s Web” [thesis, University of Delaware, 1988]

 

Folder 6:          Other furnishings

 

Folder 7:          Other handwork: Indian quillwork, shell work, sewing with hair, wax work, etc.

 

Folder 8:          Painting

 

Folder 9:          Painting and stenciling on velvet and other fabrics (theorem painting)

 

Folder 10:        Paisley shawls and printed handkerchiefs

 

Folder 11:        Palampores

 

Folder 12:        Papier maché, japanned wares

 

Folders 13-14:             Patterns for needlework; teaching drawing; artwork for girls

 

 

Box 21:          

 

Folder 1:          Pennsylvania crewel and canvas work

 

Folder 2:          Pennsylvania German needlework

 

Folder 3:          Pennsylvania needlework: Philadelphia, Wistars, etc.

 

Folder 4:          Pennsylvania samplers: Bucks and Lancaster Counties (not Armstrong)

 

Folder 5:          Pennsylvania samplers: Chester County and Westtown School

 

Folder 6:          Pennsylvania samplers: Easton

 

Folder 7:          Pennsylvania samplers: Gallagher, Maguire, Armstrong type

 

Folder 8:          Pennsylvania samplers: Kutztown and Berks County

 

Folder 9:          Pennsylvania samplers: Pennsylvania German

 

 

Box 22:

 

Folders 1-3:     Pennsylvania samplers: Philadelphia  

 

Folder 4:          Pennsylvania samplers and needlework

 

Folder 5:          Pets

 

Folder 6:          Pictures, prints

 

Folder 7:          Pins and pincushions

 

Folder 8:          Plain and Fancy [folder 1 of 2]

 

 

Box 23:

 

Folder 1:          Plain and Fancy [folder 2 of 2]

 

Folder 2:          Plain and Fancy: chapter 1

 

Folder 3:          Plain and Fancy: Introduction and chapter 1: photographs

 

Folder 4:          Plain and Fancy: chapter 2

 

Folder 5:          Plain and Fancy: chapter 2: photographs

 

Folders 6-7:     Plain and Fancy: chapter 3

 

 

Box 24:

 

Folders 1-2:     Plain and Fancy: chapter 4

 

Folder 3:          Plain and Fancy: chapter 5

 

Folder 4:          Plain and Fancy: chapter 5: photographs

 

Folder 5:          Plain and Fancy: illustrations for glossary

 

Folder 6:          Plain and Fancy: permissions

 

Folder 7:          Plain and Fancy: plates

 

 

Box 25:

 

Folder 1:          Plain and Fancy: reviews

 

Folders 2-3:     Plain and Fancy: 1995 printing

 

Folder 4:          Plain and Fancy: 1995 printing: chapters 4 and 5: photographs

 

Folder 5:          Plain and Fancy: 1995 printing: color photographs and slides

 

Folders 6-7:     Plain and Fancy: 1995 printing: photographs

 

 

Box 26:

 

Folder 1:          Plain sewing and marking

 

Folder 2:          Pocket books

 

Folder 3:          Pockets

 

Folder 4:          Porcupine quills and Indian work

 

Folder 5:          Prime, Dow, etc. – lists

                        [Alfred Coxe Prime and George Francis Dow – information about arts and crafts]

 

Folder 6:          Queen’s stitch

 

Folders 7-9:     Quilts

 

 

Box 27:          

 

Folder 1:          Quilts, Baltimore

 

Folder 2:          Quilts, John Hewson types

 

Folder 3:          Quilts, research

 

Folder 4:          Quotations and talk material

 

Folder 5:          Raised work (stump work)

 

Folder 6:          Research on Winterthur objects

 

Folder 7:          Research to do – library and manuscripts lists

 

 

Box 28:

 

Folder 1:          Rhode Island samplers and needlework

 

Folder 2:          Sailors’ embroidery

 

Folders 3-4:     Samplers

 

Folders 5-6:     Samplers: artists and research

 

Folder 7:          Samplers – outline of a talk

 

Folders 8-9:     Samplers and marking

 

 

 

Box 29:

 

Folders 1-6:     Schools

 

Folder 7:          Schools: list and summary of dates

 

Folder 8:          Schools: no needlework mentioned

 

 

Box 30:

 

Folder 1:          Schools: not on list

 

Folder 2:          Scrimshaw research

 

Folder 3:          Sewing machines, machine embroidery

 

Folder 4:          Sewing tables, boxes

 

Folder 5:          Sewing tools

 

Folder 6:          Shaker textiles and needlework

 

Folder 7:          Shelburne Museum

 

Folders 8-9:     Silhouettes     

 

Folder 10:        Silhouettes and profiles: photographs

 

 

Box 31:

 

Folder 1:          Silhouettes at Winterthur

 

Folder 2:          Silver

 

Folders 3-4:     Silver: photographs

 

Folder 5:          Silver research; Swans’ silver

 

Folder 6:          Slide lists

 

Folder 7:          Slides, and information about slides

 

Folder 8:          Slides of needlework at Winterthur

 

Folders 9-10:   Small needlework (primarily samplers)

 

 

Box 32:

 

Folder 1:          Sothebys ceramics course, London

 

Folder 2:          Southern and western samplers

 

Folder 3:          Supplies: thread, canvas, lace, spangles

 

Folder 4:          Swan, Susan B.

 

Folder 5:          Swan, Susan B.: articles by S.B. Swan

 

Folder 6:          Swan, Susan B. book reviews written by S. B. Swan

 

Folder 7:          Swan, Susan B.: display of needlework, 1997

 

Folder 8:          Swan, Susan B.: items sent to auction

 

Folder 9:          Swan, Susan B.: paper: “It Takes More Than a Needle to Sew, or Collecting Sewing Implements”

           

Folder 10:        Swan, Susan B.: photographs

 

Folder 11:        Swan, Susan B.: preface, introduction [to unknown work]

 

Folder 12:        Swan, Susan B.: vita

 

Folder 13:        Swan, Susan B. and Delmar: antiques collection [folder 1 of 2]

 

 

Box 33:

 

Folder 1:          Swan, Susan B. and Delmar: antiques collection [folder 2 of 2]

 

Folder 2:          Tambour work

 

Folder 3:          Tapestries

 

Folder 4:          Tatting, frivolité

 

Folder 5:          Tent stitch

 

Folder 6:          Terms: architectural, inventories

 

Folders 7-8:     Textile advertisements           

 

Folder 9:          Textile Exhibition Room (old)

 

Folder 10:        Textile holding summary for students, etc.; what curators do; ethics

 

Folder 11:        Textile people

 

 

Box 34:

 

Folder 1:          Textile references and uses at “Homewood” [estate in Maryland]   

 

Folder 2:          Textile research

 

Folder 3:          Textile Society of America

 

Folder 4:          Textile terms and definitions

 

Folder 5:          Textile weaves: names, technology, spinning, weaving

 

Folder 6:          Textiles

 

Folder 7:          Textiles: Chinese silk

 

 

Box 35:

 

Folder 1:          Textiles: general and U.S. manufactory

 

Folders 2-3:     Textiles: silk, wool, cotton

 

Folder 4:          Textiles: Wilmington

 

Folder 5:          Textiles in America – outline and bibliography

 

Folder 6:          Thimbles

 

Folder 7:          Thimbles: TCI Bulletin (Thimble Collectors International)

 

Folder 8:          Thimbles: “Thoughts on Thimbles,” by Elizabeth Aldridge

 

Folder 9:          “This Work in Hand”: half women, half needlework [folder 1 of 2]

 

 

Box 36:

 

Folder 1:          “This Work in Hand”: half women, half needlework [folder 2 of 2]

 

Folder 2:          Turkey work

 

Folder 3:          Umbrellas

 

Folder 4:          Underhill, Samuel, cabinetmaker

 

Folder 5:          University of Delaware: course ARH 672: course evaluations

 

Folder 6:          University of Delaware: course ARH 672: lecture notes

 

Folder 7:          University of Delaware: course ARH 672: tests and assignments

 

Folder 8:          University of Delaware: papers

 

Folder 9:          Unspecific needlework (different forms and how used in the house)

 

Folder 10:        Upholstery: Chippendale side and arm chairs

 

 

Box 37:

 

Folder 1:          Upholstery: easy chairs – all periods

 

Folder 2:          Upholstery: Federal chairs and benches

 

Folder 3:          Upholstery: Federal sofas

 

Folder 4:          Upholstery: needlework furnishings

 

Folder 5:          Upholstery: 17th century, William and Mary

 

Folder 6:          Upholstery: sofas: Chippendale and Queen Anne; daybeds

 

Folder 7:          Upholstery: upholsterers, fabrics, methods, turkey work

 

Folder 8:          Vermont samplers

 

Folder 9:          Walls and ceilings – paper, stucco, etc.

 

Folder 10:        Watercolors: checklist of watercolors in Winterthur Museum

 

Folder 11:        Window curtains - general

 

Folder 12:        Window curtains and valances - paper

 

Folder 13:        Window hangings: 17th century, William and Mary, Empire [also some upholstery]

 

Folder 14:        Window treatments: Venetian blinds, cornishes, shades, etc.

 

Folder 15:        Winslow, Anna Green: notes about her diary, 1771

 

Folder 16:        Winter Institute

 

 

Box 38:

 

Folders 1-4:     Winterthur: accession sheets, 1979-1994       

 

Folder 5:          A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework

 

Folder 6:          Winterthur: “Guidelines for Preparing a Catalogue”

 

Folder 7:          Winterthur Guidebook: canvas work, Berlin work

 

 

Box 39:

 

Folder 1:          Winterthur Guidebook: crewel work, silk work, mourning pictures

 

Folder 2:          Winterthur Guidebook: needlework furniture and tools, samplers (including marking and darning, schools, family records), lace and Dresden work, maps and globes, hand towels

 

Folder 3:          Winterthur Guidebook: quilts, tambour, knitting, white on white work, stuffed and corded, candlewicking, hatchments, bed rugs, sailors’ work, bibliography

 

Folder 4:          Winterthur guides – memos to

 

Folder 5:          Winterthur: Textile Special Study tour training

 

Folders 6-7:     Winterthur textiles

 

 

Box 40:

 

Folders 1-2:     Women           

 

Folder 3:          Women: accomplishments: dancing, riding, French, piano

 

Folders 4-5:     Women: birth

 

Folders 6-7:     Women: clothing, corsets, accessories

 

 

Box 41:

 

Folder 1:          Women: commenting on their lives

 

Folder 2:          Women: comments about

 

Folder 3:          Women: courting, pre-marital, what to look for, etc.

 

Folder 4:          Women: housework

 

Folder 5:          Women: importance of needlework

 

Folder 6:          Women: laws, rights, legal divorce

 

Folder 7:          Women: marriage, family life [folder 1 of 2]

 

 

Box 42:

 

Folder 1:          Women: marriage, family life [folder 2 of 2]

 

Folder 2:          Women: multiple references

 

Folders 3-4:     Women: professions   

 

Folder 5:          Women: sex, birth control, rape, promiscuity, etc.

 

Folder 6:          Women: Victorian women

 

Folder 7:          Women: wedding ceremony

 

 

Box 43:

 

Folders 1-3:     Women and education

 

Folder 4:          Women and families

 

Folder 5:          Women and girls: behavior and manners

 

Folder 6:          Women and politics

 

 

Box 44:

 

Folder 1:          Women and religion

 

Folder 2:          Women and sewing

 

Folder 3:          Women and sewing: dislike

 

Folder 4:          Women and sewing: multiple references

 

 

Box 45:

 

Folder 1:          WPEAC program and students

 

Folder 2:          WUDPAC  program and students

 

Folder 3:          Youth – apprentices, indentures, evening school

 

Folder 4:          “Draping,” outline for course at Elizabeth Kardos Fashion Insitute (Cleveland), 1949

 

Folder 5:          Morris, Deborah, and Sarah Powell

 

Folder 6:          Research at Deerfield

 

Folder 7:          Wills and inventories

 

 

Box 46: Notecards:

 

Notes on interiors, textiles, rugs, animals, silhouettes, needlework, women, costumes, upholstery, wallpaper, quotations, plus one group of cards that was not labeled

 

 

 


Series II: Talks and lectures

 

Box 47: Talks: by date

 

Folder 1:          Home Economic Association of Delaware, April 10, 1976

 

Folder 2:          “The American Woman and Her Stitchery,” New Castle, October 11, 1974

 

Folder 3:          Needlework and Textile Guild of Chicago, January 21, 1981

 

Folder 4:          Historic Annapolis, February 2, 1981

 

Folder 5:          Hagerstown, Md., March 29, 1981

 

Folder 6:          Western Reserve Historical Society, Women’s Advisory Council, April 22, 1981

 

Folder 7:          Washington College, April 24, 1981

 

Folder 8:          Embroidery Guild, Washington, DC, May 13, 1981

 

Folder 9:          Bennington (Vt.) Museum, June 4, 1981

 

Folder 10:        Troy, NY, September 16, 1981

 

Folder 11:        Deerfield, Mass., September 22, 1981

 

Folder 12:        “Federal Needlework,” Historic Columbia (SC), October 27-28, 1981

 

Folder 13:        Historic Society of Talbot County and Dorchester, November 12, 1981

 

Folder 14:        Chester County Historical Society, November 17, 1981

 

Folder 15:        “School Girl Needlework,” Allentown Art Museum, December 8, 1981

 

Folder 16:        Sea Pine Plantation conference, February 3-7, 1982

 

Folder 17:        Binghamton, NY, March 30, 1982

 

Folder 18:        “Women: Their Lives and Their Needlework,” Chestertown, Md., June 3, 1982

 

Folder 19:        Attingham Summer School, June 1982

 

Folder 20:        Pennsylvania Needlework,” Reading EGA, October 19, 1982

 

Folder 21:        Delaware Agricultural Museum, October 24, 1982

 

Folder 22:        Friends of Raynham Hall, Oyster Bay, NY, October 28, 1982

 

Folder 23:        “Pennsylvania German Needlework,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 3, 1983

 

Folder 24:        Historic Charleston (SC), February 22, 1983

 

Folder 25:        Loch Haven Art Center, March 13, 1983

 

Folder 26:        Baltimore Embroiderers’ Guild, April 11, 1983

 

Folder 27:        Winterthur Guild, Chippendale seminar, March 19, 1983

 

Folder 28:        Pine Bluff, Ark., April 16, 1983

 

Folder 29:        “Needlework of the Delaware Valley,” GeorgetownDel. Tech & Community College, April 25, 1983

 

Folder 30:        Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 15, 1983

 

Folder 31:        Moravian College Antiques Show, Bethlehem, Pa., June 2, 1983

 

Folder 32:        Greece, September 13-October 1, 1983

 

Folder 33:        Ft. Johnson, Rochester, NY, October 8, 1983

 

Folder 34:        Erie Historical Museum, October 13, 1983

 

Folder 35:        Mattatuck Museum (Conn.), October 1983

 

Folder 36:        Hershey, Penn., December 2, 1983

 

Folder 37:        Nashville, Heart of Country Antique Show, February 11, 1984

 

 

Box 48: Talks: by date

 

Folder 1:          Salem County, New Jersey, March 11, 1984

 

Folder 2:          Mount Clare, Baltimore, Md., April 3, 1984

 

Folder 3:          Warren County Historical Society (Ohio), July 6, 1984

 

Folder 4:          International Thimble Collectors Society, August 9, 1984

 

Folder 5:          “What Makes a House a Home,” Nottingham Inn (Pa.?), September 11, 1984

 

Folder 6:          Friends of Winterthur, September 21, 1984

 

Folder 7:          Folk Art Collectors, Winterthur, October 20, 1984

 

Folder 8:          Pennsylvania Needlework,” York County Historical Society, October 27, 1984

 

Folder 9:          Skyllkill Chapter, EGA [New York], lecture at Longwood, October 30, 1984

 

Folder 10:        Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, NY), November 15, 1984

 

Folder 11:        Quilt Symposium at Bucknell University, March 17-19, 1985

 

Folder 12:        Delaware Tech. and Comm. College, Georgetown, April 29, 1985

 

Folder 13:        Concord Antiquarian Society, February 13, 1985

 

Folder 14:        Hershey Museum, Penn., February 18, 1985

 

Folder 15:        Chesapeake EGA, March 25, 1985

 

Folder 16:        Empire seminar, Textile Guild, March 27-29, 1985

 

Folder 17:        Carolinas Needlepoint Guild, New Bern, April 20, 1985

 

Folder 18:        First Unitarian Church, July 21, 1985

 

Folder 19:        Quilts, Atlanta, October 25, 1985

 

Folder 20:        College Club of Ridgewook, NJ, November 5, 1985

 

Folder 21:        Maryland Historical Society Antiques Show, February 21, 1986

 

Folder 22:        Antiques Collectors Group, New York City, March 5, 1986

 

Folder 23:        Salem County Historical Society (NJ), March 9, 1986

 

Folder 24:        Camden County, New Jersey, April 13, 1986

 

Folder 25:        Detroit Institute of Art, May 7, 1986

 

Folder 26:        Antiques Club of New Jersey, May 12, 1986

 

Folder 27:        Winterthur Guild, June 28, 1986

 

Folder 28:        EGA Seminar ’86, October 26, 1986

 

Folder 29:        Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 3, 1986

 

Folder 30:        State College, Penn., December 6, 1986

 

Folder 31:        Washington Chapter, EGA, December 10, 1986

 

Folder 32:        Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, January 13, 1987

 

Folder 33:        Century Club of California, January 14, 1987

 

Folder 34:        Winterthur Institute, February 22, 1987

 

Folder 35:        Waynesboro (Pa.), February 24, 1987

 

Folder 36:        Winterthur Guild, March 12, 1987

 

Folder 37:        College of William and Mary, March 14, 1987

 

Folder 38:        Goucher College, April 11, 1987

 

Folder 39:        St. Louis Art Museum, May 7, 1987

 

Folder 40:        Nantucket Historical Association, October 3, 1987

 

Folder 41:        Winterthur conference, November 5, 1987

 

Folder 42:        EGA headquarters (Louisville, Ky.), November 12-16, 1987

 

Folder 43:        Collectors’ Circle, December 5, 1987

 

Folder 44:        New Jersey State Museum, December 6, 1987

 

Folder 45:        Sothebys, January 14, 1988

 

Folder 46:        EGA Philadelphia, February 19-20, 1988

 

Folder 47:        Warren County Historical Society (Ohio), May 20, 1988

 

 

Box 49: Talks: by date

 

Folder 1:          Kutztown University, October 14, 1988

 

Folder 2:          Wilmington Chapter, EGA, October 18, 1988

 

Folder 3:          Crosslands, October 20, 1988

 

Folder 4:          “Fakes and Forgeries,” Collectors Circle, October 29, 1988

 

Folder 5:          Winterthur conference, Federal period, November 2, 1988

 

Folder 6:          Winter Institute, short connoisseurship, n.d. [1989?]

 

Folder 7:          Sothebys, January 12, 1989

 

Folder 8:          Attingham Winter Week, February-March 1989

 

Folder 9:          Winterthur Guild, March 16, 1989

 

Folder 10:        EGA, Monmouth Chapter (NJ), April 20, 1989

 

Folder 11:        EGA, Oatlands Chapter (Va.), May 6, 1989

 

Folder 12:        Deerfield, Mass., June 29, 1989

 

Folders 13-14:             National EGA, June 24-25 and August 3-6, 1989

 

Folder 15:        Houston Museum (Chattanooga, Tenn.), September 9, 1989

 

Folder 16:        “Silhouettes,” Crosslands, October 19, 1989

 

Folder 17:        Upholstery conservation symposium, Williamsburg, February 1-4, 1990

 

Folder 18:        Hood Museum, Dartmouth, February 9, 1990

 

Folder 19:        Baltimore School of Art, February 27, 1990

 

Folder 20:        Hershey Museum, March 4, 1990

 

Folder 21:        Chester County Historical Society, April 1990

 

Folder 22:        Chester County Antiques Show, May 19, 1990

 

Folder 23:        Winterthur Guild, Empire style, March 21-22, 1990

 

Folder 24:        Just Cross Stitch School of Needlework, June 19 and 25, 1990

 

Folder 25:        American Society of Interior Designers, September 11, 1990

 

Folder 26:        Continental Quilting Congress (Va.), October 5-7, 1990

 

Folder 27:        Textile Society of America, September 14, 1990

 

Folder 28:        Collectors Circle, October 27, 1990

 

Folder 29:        Princeton, NJ, February 9, 1991, plus workshop

 

Folder 30:        Embroiderers’ Guild of America, February 24-27, 1991

 

Folder 31:        Winterthur Guild workshops, March 6-8, 1991

 

Folder 32:        Atlanta Historical Society, March 22-24, 1991

 

Folder 33:        Pennsylvania Home Economics Association, April 11, 1991

 

Folder 34:        Georgetown, Delaware, April 30, 1991

 

Folder 35:        Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 14, 1991

 

Folder 36:        Charles Craft, Inc. (NC), May 18, 1991

 

Folder 37:        Harrisburg, Pa., May 26, 1991

 

 

Box 50: Talks: by date

 

Folder 1:          EGA, Texas, June 5-6, 1991

 

Folder 2:          Winterthur Guild, October 16, 1991

 

Folder 3:          Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 8-10. 1991

 

Folder 4:          Winter Institute, January 26, 1992

 

Folder 5:          Paoli, Penn., March 4, 1992

 

Folder 6:          Bergen County (NJ) EGA, March 9, 1992

 

Folder 7:          Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, August 4, 1992

 

Folder 8:          Craftworld (Towson, Md.), August 21, 1992

 

Folder 9:          Charlotte, N.C., November 20, 1993

 

Folder 10:        Wilmington, Del., April 9, 1994

 

Folder 11:        Monmouth County (NJ) Historical Association, May 14, 1994

 

Folder 12:        Danville, Va., January 11, 1995

 

Folder 13:        Macon, Ga., February 15, 1995

 

Folder 14:        Cleveland, Ohio, December 6, 1995

 

Folder 15:        “Elizabeth Drinker, Quaker Woman,” January 10, 1996

 

Folder 16:        Austin, Texas, April 20, 1996

 

Folder 17:        Barclay farmstead, April 24, 1996

 

Folder 18:        Dayton, Ohio, May 9, 1996

 

Folder 19:        Stan Hywet Hall (Akron, Ohio), November 12, 1996

 

Folder 20:        Richmond, Va., March 19, 1997

 

Folder 21:        Wilton, Conn., August 10, 1997

 

 

Box 51: Talks: by date and by topic

 

Folder 1:          Colonial Williamsburg, January 6-7, 1998

 

Folder 2:          Historical Society of Delaware, March 28, 1998, and Williamsburg 1997

                        [slides are also available]

 

Folder 3:          Kendall, Kennett Square, April 1, 1998

 

Folder 4:          “American Silhouettes” 

 

Folder 5:          “American Women, Their Children and Pets”

 

Folder 6:          “Decorating the American Home”

 

Folder 7:          “Feminine Accomplishments”

 

Folder 8:          “Interiors, Textiles, and Needlework”

 

Folder 9:          “Needlework from a Historical Perspective, Relating to Winterthur Collection”

 

Folder 10:        “Needlework with a Southern Accent”

 

 

Box 52: Talks: by topic

 

Folder 1:          “Textiles in America

 

Folder 2:          “Tradition and Reality: American Women, 1650-1875”

 

Folder 3:          Names for talks

 

Folders 4-5:     Talks on needlework

 

Folder 6:          Talks on textiles

 

Folder 7:          Talks on women and pets

 

Folder 8:          Talks: pending

 

Folder 9:          Talks: tips on giving talks

 

 

 


Series III: Slides, videotapes, publications:

 

 

Box 53: slides:

 

Folder 1:          American samplers and needlework  

 

Folder 2:          Austria

 

Folder 3:          Bayeux Tapestry

 

Folder 4:          Bed rugs, blankets

 

Folder 5:          Beds and bed hangings

 

Folder 6:          Berlin work

 

Folder 7:          Bobbin lace

 

Folders 8-9:     Canvas work  

 

Folder 10:        Canvas work: queen and Irish stitches

 

Folder 11:        Coats of arms and hatchments

 

Folder 12:        Colonial Williamsburg: silk, printed textiles, needlework, upholstered furniture

 

Folder 13:        Connecticut samplers and needlework

 

 

Box 54: slides

 

Folder 1:          Connor Prairie samplers

 

Folder 2:          Conservation Clinic

 

Folder 3:          Costumes

 

Folder 4:          Coverlets

 

Folder 5:          Crewel, fancy shot, blankets

 

Folder 6:          Crewel bed hangings and chair seats

 

Folder 7:          Crewel work

 

Folder 8:          Cross, Marge: furniture

 

Folder 9:          Cutwork and Dresden work

 

Folder 10:        Deerfield revivals

 

Folder 11:        Delaware samplers and needlework

 

Folder 12:        Drapery, valences, curtains

 

 

Box 55: slides

 

Folder 1:          England

 

Folder 2:          English and European samplers

 

Folder 3:          English needlework, samplers, textiles

 

Folder 4:          English raised-work casket (stump work)

 

Folders 5-6:     European needlework and textiles: Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Wales, England

 

Folder 7:          Family slides

 

Folder 8:          Federal silk embroidery

 

Folder 9:          Female accomplishments: hair work, painting, velvet, shell work, quill work, piano playing, bead work, Victorian handwork

 

 

Box 56: slides

 

Folder 1:          Floors, rugs (hooked, Oriental), wallpaper

 

Folder 2:          Folwell (not mourning)

 

Folder 3:          France

 

Folder 4:          French needlework

 

Folder 5:          Furniture, rooms

 

Folder 6:          Greece

 

Folder 7:          “How to Mount Needlework”

 

Folder 8:          Italy

 

Folder 9:          Interiors and rooms

 

Folder 10:        Kappa Kappa Gamma

 

Folder 11:        Knitting

 

Folder 12:        Lace

 

Folder 13:        Landscapes, city scapes

 

Folder 14:        Marseilles work

 

Folders 15-16:             Massachusetts samplers and needlework

 

 

Box 57: slides

 

Folder 1:          Miniatures (portraits)

 

Folder 2:          Miscellaneous

 

Folder 3:          Miscellaneous needlework

 

Folder 4:          Modern needlework

 

Folder 5:          Monahan, Thomas J., collection

 

Folder 6:          Moravian needlework

 

Folders 7-8:     Mourning and graves 

 

Folder 9:          Needlework: conservation and fakes

 

Folder 10:        Needlework and advertisements

 

Folder 11:        Netting

 

Folder 12:        New England samplers and needlework

 

 

Box 58: slides

 

Folder 1:          New Hampshire samplers and needlework

 

Folder 2:          New Jersey samplers and needlework, also some Delaware

 

Folder 3:          New York samplers and needlework

 

Folder 4:          Ohio samplers and needlework

 

Folder 5:          Parlors, stair halls, paintings in rooms

 

Folder 6:          Pennsylvania crewel work

 

Folder 7:          Pennsylvania German needlework, towels, toys

 

Folders 8-9:     Pennsylvania samplers and needlework (folders 1-2 of 4)

 

 

Box 59: slides

 

Folders 1-2:     Pennsylvania samplers and needlework (folders 3-4 of 4)

 

Folder 3:          Pets and animals

 

Folder 4:          Portraits

 

Folder 5:          Print work

 

Folder 6:          Prints and cartoons of men, cooking, schools, indentures, etc.

 

Folders 7-8:     Quilts, bed rugs

 

 

Box 60: slides

 

Folder 1:          Rhode Island samplers and needlework        

 

Folder 2:          Sailors embroidery

 

Folder 3:          Samplers: letters and motifs

 

Folder 4:          Schools; women; costumes

 

Folder 5:          Sewing and needlework tools

 

Folder 6:          Sewing and needlework tools and furniture

 

Folder 7:          Silhouettes and portrait miniatures

 

Folder 8:          Silk embroidery on paper: Chinese, Honeywell

 

Folder 9:          Silk work: New England, Charleston, black background

 

Folder 10:        Silk work: Philadelphia

 

 

Box 61: slides

 

Folder 1:          Southern samplers and needlework

 

Folder 2:          Study slides

 

Folder 3:          Tambour

 

Folder 4:          Tatting

 

Folder 5:          Textiles: block prints

 

Folder 6:          Textiles: copperplate and stenciled

 

Folder 7:          Textiles: printed

 

Folder 8:          Textiles: resist dyed, hand painted

 

Folder 9:          Textiles: roller printed

 

Folder 10:        Textiles: velvets and sample books

 

Folder 11:        Textiles: woven

 

Folder 12:        Upholstery: chairs, slip covers, sofas, some room views       

 

Folder 13:        Winterthur textile storage

 

Folder 14:        Women

 

Folder 15:        Yuletide

 

 

Box 62: slides from carousels (slide shows)

 

Folder 1:          I. Interiors (Ohio, 11-96)

 

Folder 2:          II. Canvas work, start of samplers

 

Folder 3:          III. Early silk pictures: Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Salem; samplers: Philadelphia, Nantucket, New York, New Hampshire, 17th century, regional [her note: took Philadelphia out for Williamsburg ‘99]

 

Folder 4:          IV: Mourning, later silk work, tambour, Berlin work, Marseilles, 1 piece quilts

 

Folder 5:          V. Quilts: Hewson, inlaid, bed ruggs, Blue and White Society, fakes

 

Folder 6:          All textiles

 

Folder 7:          American needlework, 1 and 2; with script “Needlework in the Middle Colonies”

 

Folder 8:          Collecting and Appreciating American Needlework

 

Folder 9:          Collecting Samplers and Quilts

 

Folder 10:        Course 671, etc.: Introduction, English raised work, knotting, English and American crewel, blankets, bed ruggs, European canvas work

 

Folder 11:        Delaware Valley I

 

Folder 12:        Kendall talk, 1997

 

 

Box 63: slides from carousels (slide shows)

 

Folder 1:          Miscellaneous slides

[note:  The carousel box was labeled “Quilts within Women’s Repertoire,” but most of the slides are not of quilts; included are other forms of needlework, furniture, pewter, etc.

 

Folder 2:          Needlework tools (two carousels)

 

Folder 3:          Silhouettes

 

Folder 4:          talk given in Williamsburg in 1997 and at Delaware Historical Society in 1998

 

Folder 5:          Williamsburg Forum A and B

 

 

Box 64: videotapes

 

Tape 1:            “American Women and Their Needlework,” Sue Swan with George Michael, PBS antiques series, 1981 (University of New Hampshire); with

                        “Woven Treasures,” episode 1 – “Art Underfoot”

 

Tape 2:            “Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth-Century Women and Quilts,” PBS “The American Experience,” 1988

 

Tape 3:            Kappa Kappa Gamma Heritage House

 

Tape 4:            Women’s suffrage

 

 

Box 65: Publications

 

Folder 1:          Cora Ginsburg, Inc.  A Catalogue of Exquisite & Rare Works of Art…, 1995.

 

Folder 2:          Embroiderers’ Guild of America: Needle Arts, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1991).

                        EGA Education Department Supplements for 1989, 1990, and 1991.

EGA At Large, special supplements to June and December 1989 issues of Needle Arts.

 

Folder 3:          Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury Region of New Hampshire.

           

Folder 4:          M. Finkel & Daughter.  Samplings [catalog], vol. 1-14, 18-19.

 

Folder 5:          The Quilt Journal. Vol. 1, no. 1; vol. 2, no. 1 [2 copies].

 

Folder 6:          Staples, Kathleen, and Hogue, Margriet.  Samplers in the European Tradition….

 

 

Box 66: Publications

 

Folder 1:          Textile Society of America.  Proceedings, 1992:  Textiles in Daily Life.

 

Folder 2:          Textile Society of America.  Proceedings, 1990:  Textiles in Trade.

 

Folder 3:          Townsend, E. June.  “Ornamental Arts in the Female Seminary, 1800-1850” (photocopy of thesis, 1978, about New York schoolgirls’ needlework)

 

Folder 4:          Victoria and Albert Museum.  A State Bed from Erthig.

 

Folder 5:          Winterthur Museum. Recreating Yuletides Past.

 

Folder 6:          Witney Antiques.  Three catalogs, entitled:

                        Samplers: House and Garden;

                        Samplers: ‘A School Room Exercise’; and

                        Samplers: ‘All Creatures Great and Small.’

 

 

Box 67: fabric scrap 

                       

A piece of cotton muslin, ca.1785-1820, on which there is tambour work and embroidery, in silk thread and in cotton or linen thread.  The selvedge is along one edge, the other three being simply cut edges.  The work has been tacked onto a board and cloth support.  The piece belonged to Sue Swan and appears as background in several of her slides.  It is not known, however, where she obtained it.

 

 

Box 68: embroidery stitches

 

A sampler of embroidery stitches, executed by Susan Swan.  Included are whip, back, buttonhole, chain, flat, satin, herringbone, French knot, and bullion stitches.  On a piece of modern cloth which has been carefully hemmed.  The names of the stitches are written in ink and the piece is initialed S.B.S.

 

 

Box 69: Embroidery and crewelwork design sketch books

 

            Four sketchbooks (three large, one medium size) of embroidery and crewelwork patterns designed by Sue Swan.  At least one of the patterns was published in the book American Crewelwork by Mary Taylor Landon and Sue Swan.   Many of the patterns are priced, and a number include the name of the person for whom the design was drawn.  Most of the patterns are derived from 18th century originals.