Embroidered sampler
Mary Austin American
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Mary Austin attended one of the many schools that flourished in Salem in the late eighteenth century. At one time, all samplers stitched with long stitches in unraveled silk thread were considered the work of girls who had studied at Mrs. Sarah Stivour's School (1778-88), since that was the only Salem school ever named in samplers. Recent research, however, has proven that the affluent families of Salem supported many schools that helped teach their daughters the arts of refinement.
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