Quaker 1820 Female Association School #2 New York City Alphabet Sampler

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Quaker 1820 Female Association School #2 New York City Alphabet Sampler :
$380.01

Amazing 1820 School girl Sampler. What is rare is this piece is not just signed by the student with her age (Angelica Smith, aged 8 1820) but the school is identified (Female Association School #2). This school is a very famous school in New York City for poor girls run by Quaker women. Measures about 9\" long x 8\" high. Here is some info. about the school:In the book on the New York Free School Society, author William Bourne traces the Society \"to a number of Quaker women....members of the Society of Friends who were engaged in charity and education for the poor\" children of New York City. Betty Ring notes that \"the first school (school #1) under the direction of the Female Association opened for boys and girls...but the enrollment later was limited to girls\". The second school on Henry Street where our instructress Rebecca Leggett is documented having taught (see Bourne 483), asserts Ms. Ring,\"commencedclassesin the Henry St. schoolhouse on Feb.18,1812\". William Bourne also adds that \"The (Female) Association having for some time occupied in school #2...the Henry St. building\". He goes on to say on page 683 that \"the building was 2 stories high with a basement; with the Female Association (School #2) occupying the first floor\". In 1821, proposals for changes were made, and the \"girls school was opened under the care of Rebecca Leggett at a salary of $200.\" Leggett must have been quite an accomplished instructress to have been made head of the girls school in 1821, her skill in teaching needlework evidenced by this 1820 sampler worked under her tutelage when she was in charge of needlework and samplers.