| NAME |
LOCATION |
DATE(S) |
COMMENT |
| Keaney, Miss |
Hagerstown
Washington Co. |
1834 |
Taught needlework. |
| Keets, Mrs. |
Centreville
Queen Anne’s Co.
Annapolis
Anne Arundel Co. |
1801-03
1804-05 |
Taught Plain Work, Dressden Work, Tambour Embroidery… M19552, 47641 |
| Kesley, Mr. William/ Young Ladies Academy |
Baltimore |
1821-29 |
Miss S. McConnell in the female department; taught plain and ornamental needlework in 1822and in 1823 a young lady of much experience and amiable manners is permanently engaged to superintend the department of Needle Work. |
| Key, Mrs. |
Annapolis
Anne Arundel Co. |
1803
1806 |
In 1806 with Miss Campbell; taught plain & ornamental needle-work, netting. M10148, 10689 |
| King, Mrs. |
Frederick
Frederick Co. |
1806 |
Taught all kinds of Needle Work, Tambour, Open Work, Embroidery, Sampler, and Plain Sewing. M20023 |
| La Reintrie (Larenterie), Madame |
Baltimore |
1830-33 |
Catholic and French school; needlework assumed. |
| Lacombe, Madam Mary |
Baltimore |
1795-1811 |
From France and St. Dominque; Catholic; bi-lingual; in 1801 with Madame Petit taught needle work and embroidery of various kinds; in 1810-11 with Madam Maurau taught Common Sewing, every kind of Embroidery and Tambour. M20463 |
| Lancaster, Elizabeth |
Baltimore |
1820-31 |
Taught needlework and sewing using Lancasterian method; daughter of Joseph Lancaster. M39099 |
| Lancasterian School |
Easton
Talbot Co. |
1820 |
Taught plain needlework and mantua making, and knitting. |
| Lange, Mother Mary (Elizabeth Clarisse Lange) /Oblate Sisters of Providence School for Colored Girls |
Baltimore |
1828+ |
From Saint Dominque or Cuba; co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. |
| Leeke, Catherine |
Baltimore |
1826-35 |
See Hannah Churchman. |
| Leigh, Mrs. |
Leonardtown St. Mary’s Co. |
1842 |
Plain and ornamental needlework |
| Leonard, Sister Mary |
Baltimore |
1833 |
Assoc. sampler: Martha Barry 1833. |
| Levington, William/ St. James First African P. E. Church School |
Baltimore |
1824-36 |
Assoc. samplers: Ann Roberts 1829, Fany Bush 1832, William Levington 1832. |
| Levy, Mrs. Levy Andrew |
Hagerstown
Washington Co.
Baltimore |
1794-96
1800? |
Taught every branch of useful and ornamental needlework, tambouring, with the art and elegancy of shading, and taste in the arrangement of patterns. M21399, 21408, 50056 |
| Liman, Mary |
Baltimore |
1822-23 |
A mantua maker and may have taught needlework. |
| Locust Grove School |
Harford Co. |
1835 |
Assoc. sampler: Mary Jane Holland 1835. |
| Lori Academy |
Baltimore |
1828 |
Taught plain and Ornamental Needle Work. |
| Lusby, Miss Mary R. |
Annapolis Anne Arundel Co. |
1826 |
Taught with Mrs. Elizabeth White. Instruction of Young Ladies in Needle Work |
| Lyman, Eleanor (Mrs. Joseph) |
Baltimore |
1814-19 |
Assoc. sampler: Elizabeth Ireland 1819; attrib. sampler: Mary Ann Stevenson 1817. |
| Lynd, Mr. and Mrs./Lynd’s Boarding and Day School |
Baltimore |
1827 |
all the departments of polite and useful education. |
