A collection of eight antique samplers, all embroidered by the same young girl — Elizabeth E. Jacobs, depicts the purpose of antique samplers. Young Elizabeth created the smaller embroideries in this collection as experimental pieces in …

The Delineator offered detailed doll clothes patterns to make an extensive and complete doll’s wardrobe in the Victorian era.

During the nineteenth century, both boys and girls wore dresses for the first few years. Before toddler boys graduated to tunics or trousers they wore full skirted frocks over starched petticoats and drawers until they …