A group of miscellaneous volumes of literature about American needlework and American history

Approximately 41 vols.  Including Amelia Peck, American Quilts and Coverlets (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dutton Studio, 1990); Amelia Peck and Carol Irish, Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875–1900 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001); Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1973); Nina Fletcher Little, Country Arts in Early American Homes (New  York: E.P. Dutton, 1984); Hope Hanley, Needlepoint in America (New  York: Weathervane Books, 1969); and Robin Jaffe Frank, Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures(New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001). 

Also including:



American Fabrics Magazine, “American Fabrics #2” (Spring 1947



Muriel L. Baker, A Handbook of American Crewel Embroidery (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1970)



Mary Sterling Bakke, A Sampler of Lifestyles: Womanhood & Youth in Colonial Lyme (New Haven:  The Advocate Press, 1976)



Virginia Churchill Bath, Needlework in America (New York:  Viking Press, 1979)



Peter Benes et al., Families and Children (Cambridge, Mass.: Boston University, 1985)



Oliver Blair Graffam, "Youth is the Time for Progress": The Importance of American Schoolgirl Art, 1780—1860 (Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1998)



Eliza Southgate Bowne, A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago: Selections from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne (Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House, 1980)



Ed. By Blanche Brown Bryant, The Diaries of Sally and Pamela Brown (1832--1838) and Hyde Leslie (1887) of Plymouth Notch, Vermont (Springfield, Vermont: William L. Bryant Foundation, 1979)



Marion L. Channing, The Textile Tools of Colonial Homes (Marion, Mass.: Marion L. Channing, 1971)



Marion L. Channing The Magic of Spinning (Marion, Mass.: Marion L. Channing, 1971)



Marion L. Channing Laura Russell Remembers: An Old Plymouth Manuscript with Notes by Marion L. Channing (Marion, Mass.: Marion L. Channing, 1971)



Mary Cooper and Field Horne, The Diary of Mary Cooper: Life on a Long Island Farm 176 –1773 (New York:  Oyster Bay Historical Society, 1981)



Abbott Lowell Cummings, Rural Household Inventories 1675–1775 (Boston: The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1964)



Linda Grant DePau and Conover Hunt, Remember the Ladies (New York:  Viking Press, 1976)



C. Kurt  Dewhurst et al., Artists in Aprons: Folk Art by American Women (New York:  E.P. Dutton, 1979)



George F. Dow, Domestic Life in New England in the 17th Century (New York: B. Blom, 1972)



Thomas Dublin, Women at Work (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979)



Thomas Dublin, Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830–1860 (New York:  Crown and Columbia University Press, 1981)



Steve Dunwell, The Run of the Mill: A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline, and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry (Boston: David R. Godine, 1978)



Sarah Smith Emery and Sarah Anna Emery, Reminiscences of A Newburyport Nonagenarian (Bowie: Heritage Books, 1978)



Arthur L. Eno, Cotton was King: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts (Somersworth, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Pub. Co., 1976)



Robin Jaffee Frank, Love and Loss: Ameircan Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000)



Mary Gostelow, The Art of Embroidery: Great Needlework Collections of Britain and the United States (London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1979)



Frances Griffin, Less Time for Meddling:  A History of Salem Academy and College 1772–1866 (Winston-Salem: J.F. Blair, 1979)



Hope Hanley, Needlepoint in America (New York:  Weathervane Books, circa 1969)



Georgiana Brown Harbeson, American Needlework (New York:  Bonanza Books)



Helen G. Hole, Westtown Through the Years (Westtown, Pennsylvania:  Westtown Alumni Association, 1942)



Kimberly Smith Ivey, In the Neatest Manner: The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition (Austin, Texas:  Curious Works Press and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997)



Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1973)



Nina Fletcher Little, Country Arts in Early American Homes (New York:  E.P. Dutton, 1984)



Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, Linen-Making in New England, 1640–1860 (North Andover, Mass.: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1980)



Vernon Louis Parrington, The Colonial Mind 1620--1800: Main Currents in American Thought Vol. I (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954)



Amelia Peck, American Quilts and Coverlets (New York: Metropolitan Museum and Dutton Studio Books, 1991)



Amelia Peck and Carol Irish, Candace Wheeler:  The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875–1900 (New York:  Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001)



Paula Bradstreet Richter, Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery (Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001)



Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Loom & Spindle (Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976)



Mary Schoeser and Celia Rufey, English and American Textiles from 1790 to the Present (London: Thames & Hudson, 1989)



Leslie Tillett, American Needlework 1776–1976   (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975)



Margaret Vincent, The Ladies' Work Table (Allentown, Pennsylvania:  Allentown Art Museum, 1988)



Wadsworth Atheneum, Bed Ruggs / 1722–1833 (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1972)



Anna Green Winslow and Alice Morse Earle, Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771 (Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House, 1974)

The Joan Stephens Collection, sold Sotheby’s, January 19, 1997, lot 2142 (part), lot 2143 (part)