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Jacquard wool coverlet, approximately 1850

 Item — Box: 204
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 7

Dates

  • Creation: approximately 1850

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Extent

1 artifact : wool

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Item- and file-level inventory available online.http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2219.xml

General

Family heirloom jacquard wool coverlet woven, the Pilgrim Maiden in blue, tan and raspberry color spun and woven by Ruth Hedges Foster, Helen's great-great grandmother born in 1767 in Easthampton, Long Island, died 1860, age 93, in Genessee County, upstate New York, at Warsaw. Given to Helen Foster Snow in 1947 in Nantucket.

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