- Maker
- Alston, Elizabeth
- Date made
- 1833
- Origin
- Bibb County, GA US
- Stitches
- Cross
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets. A large basket of flowers at center bottom with large pine tree on each side. Smaller baskets up above with scattered motifs. Saw tooth border across bottom, with a rose border on both sides and across top.
- Inscription
- Teach me to feel anothers woe / To hide the fault I see / That mercy I to others show / That mercy show to me / Work'd by Elizabeth Alston under / the instruction of Ann M. Mitchell at / Lamar's School House Bibb County / Georgia in the year of our Lord 1838
- Length Without Frame
- 16 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 17 1/2"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1988.164.M1
- Owner
- Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
- Name of School
- Lamar's School House, Bibb County, GA
