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Portable Desk

Lap desk. Mahogany. Kittredge & Blake.

Cap

Pale pink knit cap with angora accents, pink ribbon tie. Listed in baby book. With photograph of Betsey Carroll Loud wearing the angora cap.

Baby Blanket

Baby blanket with embroidery. Listed in baby book. "Ascher's Knit Goods." Simon Ascher & Co., Inc. New York. With photograph of the baby blanket being used in a bassinet by Betsey's sister, Sylvia. Massachusetts, 1946

Pair of Children's Mittens

Pink children's mittens with pink ribbons attached just above the ribbed cuff.

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Christening Dress

Christening dress with gathered sleeves and plaited collared chest, made by Betsey's mother, Gertrude Amanda Johnson Loud (1912-1964) for Betsey's christening. Massachusetts, 1934.

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Girl's Slip

Slip worn under christening dress, Finnish white and tan lace trim at hem. Worn by Gertrude Amanda Johnson in 1912 and by Betsey Carroll Loud in 1934.

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Beanie

Red felt Wellesley beanie with a small brim in front and button on top. White felt number "56" stitched into the front. Seams sewn in tan throughout.

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Suit

Suit jacket and skirt. Fabric purchased at Saftler's. Made by Gertrude Amanda Johnson Loud (1912-1964). Photograph of Betsey Carroll Loud wearing suit jacket and skirt. Betsey is standing with her father, Emery Shaw Loud (1903-1975), by the packed car on her way to Wellesley. Massachusetts,

Men's Dressing Gown

Dressing gown, printed wool chilis with paisley lining. Belonged to Jacob Shaw (b. 1775). Note pinned to gown by Ella Shaw Loud "My great grandfather Jacob 1st, 125 years old."

Cheval Mirror

Cheval mirror [a], rectangular glass with beveled edges. Stand [b] has rope turned supports, claw and ball feet. This object is part of Historic New England's Service Collection, a group of objects acquired or reproduced for hands-on learning and interactive use.

Armchair

Armchair with carved arm terminals, carved front rail and scroll feet. Tapestry upholstery depicting two musicians, flowers, and a bird. This object is part of Historic New England's Service Collection, a group of objects acquired or reproduced for hands-on lear...

Desk and Bookcase

Tall mahogany desk and book case, scrolled pediment, three urn and flame pediments, tripartite upper case, block front, nine carved shells, curved bracket feet.

Needlework Picture "The Children in the Woods"

This framed needlework picture depicts a pair of young children curled against a grassy hilll set in a wood. There are trees in the background and leafy plants surrounding them. The children are classically dressed. The elder child has a bird perched on the right shoulder. The grass, trees, robes, ...

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece in wool with two attached paper labels, presenting a sewed pattern of covering with brown lozenges. At the intersection of each line there is a small red dot.

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This is an overall piece with three attached paper labels, representing a geometric pattern of diagonal stripes in a gradation of grey (two greys and a black stripe in the middle). The fabric is satiny. The French title means “Modern Stripe”.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing two scenes, one on the left, one on the right, both vertically repeated. The scene on the left shows an old man, a woman and a little boy in a garden, playing with a kind of saber than the woman holds. The man brandishes a net a...

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, presenting plants, flowers, trees or animals (birds, elephants, dogs, game) and a hunter holding a bow, in curved shapes embedded the ones in the others. The shapes are red or blue. The dominant colors are red, blue and light yellow. It is dep...

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This is a glazed overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing different types of red and pink flowers assembled in bouquets linked with a blue ribbon diagonally positioned. Several of these ribbons are represented. A ribbon is linked to another one thanks to a small garland of blue and...

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, showing a lampas with orange and pink flowers, yellow stems, and cream volutes, on a wood green background.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, in wool, which represented scene is viewed thanks to the sewing, in a monochrome green. Its represents a fisherman on his boat, in the middle of the reeds and the ferns, holding a round net. The French title means “Fishing”.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels and a post-it scotched on the label 1, presenting a central stripe which contours are in broken lines. This stripe contains and is surrounded by bouquets of flowers. These elements are in black and brown, while the background is blue.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing different kind of stylized flowers and coral in blue, yellow, green and pink, each one in its own curved or pointed shape. The shapes are imbricated the ones in the others, in a decorative composition.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing orangey and dark pink flowers which stems still have their roots. The flowers are dispatched in the sample and are linked by a purple ribbon and by a garland of pink flowers on a liana. The background is cream.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing an alternation of columns of flowers in naturalistic colors, and vertical stripes of decorative shapes highlighting medallions enclosing flowers. This composition is seen in close-up and the colors seem even more lively thanks to ...

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing, in a pictorial way, branches of Chinese blossoms with pink flowers and some buds, on a white background.

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing some bouquets of white and pink flowers positioned vertically as stripes but spaced the ones from the others, on a light green background animated by small green dots. The empty space is filled by some buds.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing bouquets of flowers on a small table separated by stripes adorned with geometric shapes. The flower vases and the table are depicted in a simple and decorative style. The dominant colors are orange, blue, grey and green, on a beig...

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing a repeated scene (repeated the one under the others): a woman is seating astride on a camel which bridle is hold by a man showing a building in front of them with the stick he has in his hand. A palm tree adorn the background, as ...

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing a column of pink, orange, beige and green leaves. On some small stems some birds are seating. Other bigger birds are flying around the leaves. The background is blue.

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This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing a damask of stylized flowers symmetrically positioned, in a monochrome red. The French title means “Mills”.

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This is an overall piece without any label or selvedge giving information on it. It represents green vine leaves on a lighter green background.

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece without any label or selvedge. It represents lozenges which contours contains dots and circles with a cross inside. These lozenges contains a stylized pattern of two lily flowers facing each other. The patterns are alternatively red sewed on lighter red or red sewed on darke...

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This is an overall piece without any label nor selvedge, representing a fuchsia damask of stylized and symmetrical floral patterns.

Fragment, Textile

This is a glazed overall piece without any label or selvedge containing information. It represents thin blue stripes of beige and brown geometrical leaves, separating beige rinceaux of long flowers' stems, on a beige background animated by small brown dots. Bouquets of pink and light brown flowers a...

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This is an overall piece without any label or inscribed selvedge. It represents different kinds of pink and orangey flowers on a yellow background. Some of the green leaves behind flowers.

Fragment, Textile

This is a glazed overall piece with one attached paper label, representing a geometric repeated pattern: two small tubes, one red, the other pink, cross inside a lozenge. This pattern, repeated in the whole surface, gives a coverage, on a cream background.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one scotched paper label representing an extract of a pattern with a blue and white striped background adorned with white scales, and part of a blue circle containing other elements.

Fragment, Textile

These are three small overall pieces with one attached paper label on each presenting a uniform green (for the 2012.126.116.1), mint (for the 2012.126.116.2) or blue (for the 2012.126.116.3 and 2012.126.116.4) background.

Fragment, Textile

These are small overall pieces with one attached paper label on each, presenting blue vine leaves on a darker blue (for the 2012.126.117.1) or red (for the 2012.126.117.2) background. It reminds the pattern of the sample 2012.126.109.

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These are three small overall pieces with one attached paper label on each, presenting sewed vertical stripes. The 2012.126.118.1 is a golden/ yellow monochrome, while the 2012.126.118.2 is blue and the 2012.126.118.3 is green.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, representing an alternation of red, orange and green vertical stripes in the left part, and a monochrome beige background in the rest of the sample.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, representing green, pink and orangey stripes formed by very un-picked threads. We can guess a floral pattern.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, presenting a monochrome yellow background and a thin red stripe to the extreme right of the sample. We can guess the top of a red floral pattern a the right bottom of the sample.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, presenting a monochrome green background.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, presenting a covering of large squares made with white and red threads.

Fragment, Textile

These are two small overall pieces enclosed in a paper frame, with one attached paper label on each. The enclosed fabrics are two monochrome blue silk samples. The blue of the 2012.126.124.1 is lightly lighter than the blue of the 2012.126.124.2.

Fragment, Textile

These are five small samples attached in a cardboard paper. They are all monochrome and are in different colors: the 2012.126.125.1 is blue; the 2012.126.125.2 is red; the 2012.126.125.3 is purple; the 2012.126.125.4 is taupe; the 2012.126.125.5 is grey.

Fragment, Textile

These are two small glazed overall pieces with one attached paper label on each, leaves and flowers, very drawn, in a cameo of blue (for the 2012.126.126.1) and red (for the 2012.126.126.2).

Fragment, Textile

These are two small glazed overall pieces with one attached paper label on each, presenting flowers and leaves in a very pictorial style, with undrawn contours. The 2012.126.127.1 has a light yellow background, while the 2012.126.127.2 has a light blue background.

Fragment, Textile

This is a small overall piece with one attached paper label, presenting part of an outdoor scene: two birds are flying in the sky, above a luxurious architectural garden in front of a house we see on the right of the image.