Dressmaking -- Patterns

Scope and Contents

Eleanor Walsh's sewing thesis, a graduation requirement, is a paper book with hand drawn patterns and handwritten explanations of pattern making and garment construction. It includes sample miniature cotton and muslin garments and wax paper pattern pieces used to construct some of them. Sister Virginia Jung, OSB prepared the transcript of the text of the paper book.

Scope and Contents This collection contains basic biographical information, personal items, and realia. Biographical information includes a personal data sheet, next of kin list, prayer cards, archival research correspondence, biographical notes, obituaries, and photographs. Personal items and realia include various sewing manuals with which she taught clothing classes at Saint Scholastica High School, as well as for her own needlework. Sister Angela Coyne also created four Benedictine nun dolls, which she...