The Women's Workroom Exhibit: The Responsibilities and Struggles of Childrearing and Housekeeping

This is the Wylie House Museum's Three Wylie Women: A Generation of Late Nineteenth-Century Mothers exhibit space in the Women's Workroom. For the exhibit, three of the upstairs rooms of the Wylie House are interpreted to present the many roles and responsibilities of mothers. The Women’s Workroom, a space of continuous sewing, mending, knitting, and quilting, serves to discuss the mother as the “family seamstress”, a never-ending task with growing children and changing seasons. As evidenced from the family letters, this room was most likely the bedroom of Seabrook and family, during her early years of marriage.

For more information contact the Wylie House Museum and for more information about the collections at the museum visit Wylie House Museum: Collections Overview.