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Mary W. Evans, 1824
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Winterthur Museum
SA000274
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Unknown, unfinished pocketbook, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000086
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Betsey Williams, 1796

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000003
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Unknown, two alphabets, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000062
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Elizabeth Rhodes, n.d.
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000072
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Polly Fuller, 1790
Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000027
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Mary Wilbur, n.d.
Hopkington, Washington County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000066
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Elizabeth Rhodes, n.d.
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000073
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Almira Cady, 1814
Possibly Providence, Possibly Providence County, Possibly Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000081
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Mary Freeborn, 1743
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000078
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Elizabeth Horton, 1821

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000059
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Sally Ann Remington, 1818
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000100
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Unknown, alphabet, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000025
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Louisa Maria Dexter, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000041
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Unknown, two verses, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000024
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Caroline Frances Olney, n.d.
probably Providence, probably Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000055
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Mary Arnold Potter, 1806
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000045
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Unknown, pine tree band, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000011
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Lucy Horton, 1835
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000058
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Eliza A. Metcalf, c. 1818
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massacusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000033
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Jane Whitman, 1756

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000075
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Rebecca G. Starkweather, 1811
Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000101
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Lucy Horton, n.d.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000060
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Hannah Coffin, 1808

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000087
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Frances B. Irish, 1827

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000089
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Caroline Newbold, 1817

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000036
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Unknown, three alphabets, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000063
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Dinah Collins, 1818
Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000050
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Elizabeth Allen, 1793
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000084
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Eliza Aborn, 1794

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000090
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Unknown, wool alphabets, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000076
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Unknown, three alphabets, n.d
Unknown
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000092
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Elisa Harriet Arnold Allen, 1831
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000038
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Susan Angell, n.d.
Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000021
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Hannah R. Rawson, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000074
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Lydia Bond, 1794
Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000026
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Unknown, unfinished alphabet, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000095
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Polly Gardner, 1805
East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000091
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Sarah T. Borden, 1838
Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000016
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Martha S. Hazard, 1859
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000088
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Patience Peck, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000022
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Sarah Austin, 1822

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000085
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Unknown, six alphabets, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000043
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C. H. Child, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000018
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Hannah E. Magill, 1841
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000019
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Elizabeth F. Bowen, n.d.
Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000023
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Julia Rowe, 1811
Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000044
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Katherine Holden, 1733
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000046
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Sarah Russell Warren, 1830
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000039
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Sarah F. Sweet, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000049
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Susan Arnold Burrill, 1810
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000056
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Betsey Chase, c. 1789

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000054
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Sarah Brown, 1799

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000061
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Lucy Child, n.d.
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000032
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Lydia W. Searlle, n.d.
Rhode Iland
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000103
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Ann Holberton, 1824

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000053
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Mary Balch, 1773
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000065
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Elizabeth Irwin, 1814
Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000079
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Sarah Rogers, 1746
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000067
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Abigail Guild, 1802

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000071
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S. R., 1798

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000004
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Mary A. Brown, 1818
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000008
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Mary Balch, 1794
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000068
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Melisa Usher, 1829

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000010
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Harriet W. Thorp, 1840
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000047
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Sarah Lewis Sisson, 1829
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000051
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Judith Paul, 1791
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000029
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Patty Davis, 1793
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000069
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Eliza Arnold Nichols, 1829

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000099
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Unknown, octagon with border, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000001
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Harriet Henrietta Eggleston, 1838
Connecticut
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000017
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Unknown, memorial to Elizabeth Seamans, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000002
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Avis Harris, 1814
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000042
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Phebe Aldrich Scott, c. 1814
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000048
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Rebeckah Bullfinch, 1798
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000005
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Ann Barton, 1800
Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000006
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Eliza A. Taylor, 1811
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000007
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Mary B. Cleavland, 1823

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000009
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Maria N. Barker, 1830
Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000012
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Betsey Hamlet, 1831
Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000013
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Mary Brooks, 1833
Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000014
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Abigail Dix, 1836
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000015
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Eliza Barnes Weeden, 1879
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000020
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Unknown, reclining shepherdess, n.d.
Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000028
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Betsy Harris, n.d.
Rhode Island or New York
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000030
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Charlotte Osgood, 1817

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000031
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Amey Randall, 1793

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000034
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Mary Chase Lewis, c. 1839
Massachusetts
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000035
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Caroline Newbold, 1818
Pennsylvania or Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000037
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Janet Russell, 1825

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000052
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Sarah Ann Curry Deans, c. 1815
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000057
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Unknown, diamond border, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000064
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Elizabeth Southworth, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000077
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Unknown, parting of Hector & Andromache, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000080
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Elizabeth Weeden Bartlett, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000083
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Lydia W. Arnold, 1817
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000093
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Unknown, unfinished verse, n.d.
possibly Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000094
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Phebe Sprague, 1807
Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000096
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Mary Sprague, 1807
Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000097
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Diana Thornton, 1813
possibly Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000098
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Louisa Sisson Whitman, 1839
possibly Coventry, possibly Kent County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000102
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Maria Barrows, n.d.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000070
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Unknown, memorial to Allen family, n.d.

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000082
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Olive L. Aldrich, 1835
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000104
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Rhoda Williams, 1799

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000106
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Chloe Allen, 1802

Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000105
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Phebe Hughes, 1796
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
DAR Museum
SA000112
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Louisa Maria Dexter, 1836
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society
SA000040
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Sarah Pearce, 1755
Bristol County, Rhode Island
Fenimore Art Museum
SA000726