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Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

Description: According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 18… more
Date: February 1835
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Cotton card

Description: Wooden cotton carders; with metal teeth through pad; marked, "The Only Genuine Old Whittemore Patent Improved No. 10 Cotton"; from the old Glenn Crain Home in McGregor, TX
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Winder

Description: Wooden yarn winder holds yarn for warping frame; includes 10 bobbins--2 of which are different from the others--that are wired through the center and held in 2 vertical rows
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

The Phenological & Physiological Register

Description: The cover has an illustration of a person's head with each phrenological 'section' diagrammed. Under the picture, there is text with blanks to be filled in that says, "With Chart, Describing the phrenological Developments of M______ as given by _______, Date _______."
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Summons for Isaac Mitchell

Description: Summons for Isaac Mitchell to appear before the District Court judge in Washington County regarding petition of H. Chiairs and Samuel P. Baskins. Handwritten in ink.
Date: February 22, 1840
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

View in the Ruins of the Alamo.

Description: Hand-colored engraved print of the Alamo cut from an unknown bound volume. The text under the picture reads: "Never, in the world's history, had defense been more heroic; it has scarcely been equaled, save at the Pass of Thermopylae." -- Page 341.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Yellow Quilt Block]

Description: One of 39 cotton quilt squares for making pieced quilt; 4 small blocks makeup each large one, each small block being composed of 2 triangles and one central arrow-shaped piece. This block has solid yellow arrow pieces and triangles in two patterns: green-and-white flowers on a purple background, and green and blue blocks on a pink polka-dot background.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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