Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee: Neddlework in the Educationof Rhode Island Women from 1730 to 1830

FAIN: GM-20918-82

Rhode Island Historical Society (Providence, RI 02906-1012)
Ann T. LeVeque (Project Director: April 1982 to October 1990)

To support implementation of a temporary exhibit on the history of the education of young women in Rhode Island as revealed through samplers, needlework, diaries, letters, textbooks and exercise books produced in schools and academies for girls in the 18th and early 19th centuries.