Jane McNabb Reid portrait and needlework sampler

Access and use

Location of collection:
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
Special Collections and Archives
James G. Leyburn Library
Washington and Lee University
204 W. Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Tom Camden
Phone: (540) 458-8649
Phone: (540) 463-8109
Fax: (540) 463-8964
Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Jane McNabb Reid Portrait and Needlework Sampler (RHS Coll. 0508), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Summary

Extent:
4.0 Linear Feet one framed portrait, one framed sampler
Creator:
Prewitt, Susan
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Jane McNabb Reid Portrait and Needlework Sampler (RHS Coll. 0508), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of a portrait and needlework sampler that belonged to Jane McNabb Reid. The needlework sampler was created by Reid when she was 18 years old in 1840 and includes several alphabets and the following four lines: Teach me to feel another's woe/To hid the fault I see/That mercy I to others show/That mercy show to me. The text is based on a poem by English poet Alexander Pope. The portrait is of an older Jane, likely created in the years preceeding her death in 1889.

Biographical / historical:

Jane McNabb was born in 1822 in Lexington, Virginia to John McNabb. Her mother's name is unknown. She married William Reid in 1848. She died in 1889 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Rockbridge County, Va.

Acquisition information:
Donated to the Rockbridge Historical Society by Jane McNabb Reid's great-great grandchildren Susan Prewitt and her siblings.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Needlework
Names:
Reid, Jane McNabb
Prewitt, Susan
Places:
Lexington (Va.)