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This is the one found in a church rummage sale.

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This is the one found in an Antiques store in Maine.

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These relics of a nineteenth-century exhibit on flax production are now at the Vermont Historical Society. From left to write, they include unbleashed linen thread, bleached thread, thread wound on a "quill" or spool, and combed flax ready for spinning.

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1. Eliza Philbrick's "Colonial Gown"

2. Bed rug

3. Tablecloth

4. Woodsplint basket

5. Amanda K. Winter's blankets

6. Purse

7. Hannah Barnard "table stone" Hadley, MA cemetery