October 4, 2008 — August 17, 2009

Historians have long recognized that family networks play a crucial role in the social, political, commercial, and religious activities of both men and women. This exhibition explores the importance of families with regard to samplers and needlework pictures; how needlework can serve as primary source material for historical and genealogical research; and how needlework served to strengthen family ties through gifts and inheritance by subsequent generations.