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Program

Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Period of Performance

9/1/2011 - 8/31/2014

Funding Totals

$300,000.00 (approved)
$300,000.00 (awarded)

Sampler Archive Project

FAIN: PW-50897-11

University of Delaware (Newark, DE 19711-3651)
J. Ritchie Garrison (Project Director: July 2010 to February 2015)

Development of an online digital repository and searchable database of images and descriptive information about American girlhood samplers and pictorial embroideries from the 17th through the 19th centuries.

The purpose of the Sampler Archive Project is to create an online digital repository and searchable database that brings together digital images and detailed descriptive information about American girlhood samplers and pictorial embroideries from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.