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Region: East Tennessee
1830 Eliza Ann Rankin and Elizabeth Dickey

1512"V x 11"H © TSS 044
fibers: silk
ground: 36 V/26 H ct. linen
Description:
This sampler is the work of a young or inexperienced stitcher. The inscription reads:

EliZa Ann
Rankin
Annadomi
1830
EliZabeth
Dickey

Both Eliza Ann and Elizabeth may have worked on the sampler or one may have been the student and the other the instructor. Not enough is known of their histories to determine their respective ages.
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