Object Record
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Metadata
Accession number |
1988.057 |
Object Identification Number |
1988.057.001j |
Object Name |
Sample, Needlework |
Donor |
Grand View College |
Description |
The needlework sample is a rectangular, length of off-white linen with a threadwork design on one side of rows of raised outlines of ovals, some larger than others. |
Dimensions |
W-5.5 L-34.25 inches |
Made By |
Sorensen, Susanna |
Owned By |
Sorensen, Susanna |
Material |
linen/thread |
Associated People |
Sorensen, Susanna |
Search Terms |
Sorensen, Susanna needlework sample needlework handwork weaving Grand View College Grand View University Hull House Chicago, Illinois Danish Domestic Arts Society Solvang, California Des Moines, Iowa threadwork ovals |
Provenance |
This is a collection of handwork samples (1988.057.001a-ee) donated by Grand View University (then College) in 1988. All of the samples were made by Susanna Sorensen. There is a photograph (1988.057.002) showing Susanna Sorensen weaving at a loom at Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. Susanna Sorensen was born in Denmark in 1864 and grew up in the Grundtvigian Folk School tradition. She learned weaving and "fancy work" and later taught in folk schools. In 1902, she immigrated to the U.S. and obtained a position as a weaving instructor at the Marshal Fields Company in Chicago, and later became an instructor at the Hull House. There, the children she worked with were primarily handicapped and underprivileged, and she also developed a special system for teaching blind students. Her teaching later expanded to the East Lansing Agricultural College in Michigan, the University of Chicago, and at several invalid homes in Chicago. Sorensen was awarded the Medal of Merit from the Danish Domestic Arts Society in 1922. When she retired, she settled in Solvang, California and then in Des Moines, Iowa where she entered the Danish Old People's Home in 1940. She passed away in 1950. |
Images |
198\1988057001j.JPG |
Date Received by Museum |
June 1988 |