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If You're Selling, I'm Buying: A Sample Book Sampler

August 26, 2015

By Tamara Fultz

Associate Museum Librarian Tamara Fultz looks at some of the more colorful sample books in Watson Library's special collections.
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Wood You Like to See Some Samples?

September 21, 2016

By Dana Hart

Manager for Library Administration Dana Hart explores Watson Library's complete set of The American Woods, a gorgeous sample book of various types of wood.
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Gertrude Whiting's Bobbin-Lace Sampler and the Connoisseurship of Lace

June 15, 2018

By Elena Naomi Kanagy-Loux

Elena Naomi Kanagy-Loux highlights a box of bobbin-lace samples assembled by Gertrude Whiting in a fascinating account of early female professionals and visitorship at The Met.
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Threads of History: Digitizing Textile Sample Books

July 24, 2019

By Ursula Romero

Former Intern Ursula Romero discusses digitizing textile sample books in Thomas J. Watson Library.
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Diversity and Exquisiteness: Examples of Three Asian Textile Sample Books

June 27, 2018

By Andrijana Sajic

Senior Book Conservation Coordinator Andrijana Sajic discusses three Asian textile sample books in the collection of Thomas J. Watson Library.
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Alphabets, Flowers, and Verse: American Samplers and Needlework by Girls

March 12, 2019

By Catherine Stergar

Did you know that artwork by girls is in The Met collection? See nineteenth-century samplers and needlework pictures from The American Wing.
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European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sackler Families Announce Removal of the Family Name in Dedicated Galleries

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Simple Gifts: Shaker at The Met

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What makes this seemingly simple drinking vessel rebellious?

December 4, 2013
"It’s actually a celebration of the exalted status of being drunk."
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Embroidered by Julia Ann Fitch (American, 1792–1818)

Date: 1807
Accession Number: 2010.466

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Rebekah S. Munro (1780–1803)

Date: ca. 1791
Accession Number: 1984.331.13

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Martha (Patty) Coggeshall (1780–1797)

Date: ca. 1792
Accession Number: 14.26

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Mariah Boil (born 1832)

Date: 1844
Accession Number: 2008.453

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Embroidered by Charlotte Gardner (born 1801)

Date: December 23, 1813
Accession Number: 2009.413

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Sarah Lawrence

Date: 1768
Accession Number: 1999.271

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Mary Elizabeth Morse (American, born New York, 1832)

Date: 1840
Accession Number: 2015.708

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Anna Huntington (American, 1791–1819)

Date: 1803
Accession Number: 2023.318

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Mary Ann Stauffer (American, 1811–1896)

Date: 1830
Accession Number: 1984.331.15

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Laura Hyde (American, 1787–1857)

Date: 1800
Accession Number: 44.113