Friendship Album
Friendship Album
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- Description
- A friendship album with perforated paper covers that have been embroidered. The inside of the covers are lined with silk. Between the covers are many pages of verses and newspaper clippings. It was made by Matilda Selenda Chaffee, daughter of Samuel and Ursula Chaffee of Berkshire, Vermont. She was born October 9, 1840 and made the album in 1857. Matilda married Charles Smith Moulton on December 24, 1867, and they had one daughter, Nettie Bell Moulton.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- embroidery, cardboard
- maker
- Chaffee, Matilda Selenda
- made at
- United States
- ID Number
- TE.T9686
- catalog number
- T09686.000
- accession number
- 173352
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Grace Chaffee Smith
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Victorian Needlework
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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