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• Glee Krueger, New England Samplers to 1840 (Sturbridge: Old Sturbridge Village, c1978).

• Paula Bradstreet Richter, Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery (Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2000).

• Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650–1850 (New York: Knopf, 1993).

• Betty Ring, "One Moment in Time: The Family Portrait Mourning Piece, a Unique American Form," in The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England, edited by D. Brenton Simons and Peter Benes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002).