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German Fraktur of Maria Magdalena Maassin

A delightful record, reminiscent of the embroidered 'samplers' worked by many young women of the same time period, to display their skills with needle and thread.

Date: 1797; updated to 1870

Photographer: Maria Magdelena Maassin

Reference: Canon E.A. Harris Nova Scotia Archives MG 4 vol. 105 no. 9

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