The Rhinebeck Historical Society, the Starr Library, and the Dutchess County Historical Society are co-sponsoring Sampler ID Day at the Starr Library in Rhinebeck on June 2nd and 3rd.

Sampler ID Day is a Hudson Valley-wide effort to locate, photograph, and document American samplers and related girlhood embroideries held in the public and private collections of our region. Coordinators for this initiative are working with local museums, historical societies, historic homes, private collectors, and descendants, to identify antique schoolgirl samplers in their collections and document them for inclusion in the Sampler Archive, an online searchable database of American schoolgirl needlework (samplerarchive.org).

Owners of antique samplers are encouraged to bring them to the Starr Library, 68 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, on Sampler Identification & Documentation Day June 2 – 3, 2023.  Friday June 2nd, 12:00 – 4:00 pm, by appointment only; Saturday June 3rd, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, appointments & walk-ins. (There will also be Sample ID Days on Sept. 8 – 9, 2023, at the Wallace Center, FDR Historic Site, Hyde Park).

For more information, contact Stacy Whittaker at swhitt@prodigy.net.

 

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