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Machine Embroidered Wall Hanging, Clyde and Neil's Highschool Letter and Poems
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| Accession #: | 4037.2 |
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| Title: | Machine Embroidered Wall Hanging, Clyde and Neil's Highschool Letter and Poems |
| Object Type: | Hanging, Wall |
| Participants: |
Allen, Pearl E. (creator)
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| Physical Description: | Muslin wall hanging with five brass hanging rings and red and blue machine embroidered poems and letters written by Pearl's sons, Clyde and Neil, when they attended North Central High School. There is a feed sack lining on back. |
| Description: | Imagine your mother recording your homework on a wall hanging like this one called "Clyde and Neil's High School Letter and Poems". One day at her treadle sewing machine, Pearl Allen lifted the presser foot and began a hobby of recording family memories in machine script on fabric. As young women, Pearl and her sister Lillie "proved" a homestead in dusty sagebrush country, then immediately returned to live in Spokane. Like many intrepid Inland Northwest women, Pearl kept a free spirit throughout her life, "as independent as a hog on ice." |
| Category: | History |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Folk Art (Communication)
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| Dimensions: |
Object L x W 25 x 39"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
muslin (Material)
thread (Material)
brass (alloy) (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Clyde and Kathleen Allen, 2002 |
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