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Anne Orr–Professional Life<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Anne Orr\u00a0started her career as the art editor for Southern-Woman’s<\/i><\/b> magazine, a Nashville-based company in 1913\/1914 until 1918 when the magazine ceased production.<\/div>\n
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During this\u00a0same timeframe, she started producing and publishing her own needlework patterns out of her Nashville home at 702 20th Avenue South under the company name *<\/b>, “Anne Orr Design Studio”.\u00a0\u00a0These\u00a0publications were inexpensive black and white booklets (usually 10 or 25 cents) printed by Brandon Printing Company in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n
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As early as 1916, she began to be sponsored by the British firm of J&P Coats & Clark’s Thread and in the 1930’s by American Thread and Spool Company.<\/div>\n
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It was well-known that Anne did NOT do needlework herself.\u00a0 She was the artist\/designer of the patterns.<\/div>\n
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In addition to her mail-order design publication business, in the mid to late 19teens, she started hiring local women to carry out (stitch, crochet, knit, tat, etc) her designs into a physical form.\u00a0 She called them her ‘needlework cabinet’.\u00a0 It is also reported that she hired other Tennessean women to custom hand-quilt quilts on a commercial basis.<\/div>\n
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In November, 1919 she became the needlework editor for Good Housekeeping<\/i><\/b> magazine, a position she held until her retirement in 1940 (at the age of 71).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Upon her hiring, Good Housekeeping<\/i><\/b> magazine announced that Anne Orr “…will show her designs exclusively in Good Housekeeping<\/i><\/b> magazine.”\u00a0 Every article that showcased her designs had ordering information direct to Good Housekeeping<\/i><\/b> in New York City in care of Anne Orr.\u00a0 This type of national exposure to her designs gave Anne Orr Design Studio a very lucrative mail-order business.<\/div>\n
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She is said to have continued to design and publish patterns and booklets until her death in 1946 at the age of 77.<\/div>\n
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Her daughter(s) are said to have continued the business for awhile,\u00a0but they too are deceased.<\/div>\n
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Most of her work fell into ‘public domain’.\u00a0\u00a0Many of Anne Orr’s embroidery, crochet, knitting, and tatting patterns have been preserved by Dover Publishing Company.\u00a0 They reprinted several of her booklets into inexpensive books to continue Anne Orr’s legacy.\u00a0 However, her quilt patterns have not been preserved quite as well.<\/div>\n
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*<\/b>\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 This address differs from another known address for Anne Orr’s home of:\u00a0 130 Twenty-First Avenue South <\/i><\/div>\n
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ANNE ORR DESIGN STUDIO PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n
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No.\u00a06\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gown Yokes–Crochet Work<\/div>\n
No. 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Children’s Caps & Design for the Nursery in Crochet Work, 1915<\/div>\n
No. 8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Filet Crochet Design,\u00a01916<\/div>\n
No. 9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Crochet Book: Edgings, Insertions, Corners & Medallions, 1916<\/div>\n
No. 10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Vintage Crochet Gown Yoke Patterns, 1916<\/div>\n
No. 11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Knitted & Crocheted Bed Spreads, 1916<\/div>\n
No. 12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Center Pieces & Luncheon Sets, 1916<\/div>\n
No. 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tatting, 1918<\/b><\/div>\n
No. 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Filet Crochet & Cross Stitch Designs, 1918<\/div>\n
No. 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yokes & Sweaters, 1918<\/div>\n
No. 16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lingerie & Gifts, 1918<\/div>\n
No. 17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Filet Crochet, 1919<\/div>\n
No. 18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Center Pieces & Luncheon Sets, 1918<\/div>\n
No. 19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Table Runner & other Pretty Patterns in Crochet,<\/div>\n
No. 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yoke, Sweaters & Lingerie, 1921<\/div>\n
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No. 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Miscellaneous Needlework, 1923<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n
No.\u00a025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cutwork Embroidery<\/div>\n
No. 26\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Patchwork & Embroidery Designs<\/div>\n
No. 27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Transfers for Handkerchiefs<\/div>\n
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No. 29\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Filet Crochet Designs<\/div>\n
No. 30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Quilting & Patchwork Combined with Embroidery<\/div>\n
No. 31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Handkerchiefs<\/div>\n
No. 32\u00a0\u00a0 New Crochet Designs and their Many Uses, 1933<\/div>\n
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No. 34\u00a0\u00a0 Crochet Designs, 1935<\/div>\n
No. 35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tatting, 1935 (revised 1940)<\/b><\/div>\n
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No. 37\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Decorative Bedspreads, (Knitting, revisded), 1941<\/div>\n
No. 38\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0New Afghans for Summer and Winter, 1937<\/div>\n
No. 39\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Needlepoint<\/div>\n
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No. 43\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tatting, 1942<\/b><\/div>\n
No. 44\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Knitting Spreads, Doilies & Edgings<\/div>\n
No. 45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Crochet Designs<\/div>\n
No. 46\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alphabets & Monograms<\/div>\n
No. 47\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Needlepoint<\/div>\n
No. 48\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tatting, 1950<\/b><\/div>\n
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Other Anne Orr Publications<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
J&P Coats Crochet Book #2, 1917<\/div>\n
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J&P Coats Crochet–Yokes and Gifts\u00a0Book #3, 1919<\/div>\n

J&P Coats Filet Crochet Book #4, 1920<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

J&P Coats\u00a0Edgings, Insertions, Medallions in Crochet Book #5, 1920<\/div>\n
J&P Coats\u00a0Sweater, Yokes & Boudoir Caps Book #7, 1921<\/div>\n
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J&P Coats Cross Stitch and Crochet Book #9, 1922<\/div>\n
J&P Coats Crochet, Cross Stitch & Tatting Book #14, 1923\u00a0\u00a0<\/b> Georgia Seitz has this publication available page by page at<\/i>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.bellaonline.com\/articles\/art30942.asp<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Note:\u00a0 ‘Patchwork’ is another word for quilting techniques<\/div>\n
BOLD\u00a0<\/b> indicates\u00a0tatting related\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Anne Orr–Personal Life<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
Anne Orr was born into, married, and lived in a very affluent style.\u00a0 She was referred to by a woman who knew her (as a child living across the street from Anne in Nashville) as a ‘Grand Dame’.<\/div>\n
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She was\u00a0born Anne Claiborne Champe on April 17, 1869 to a wealthy Nashville family.<\/div>\n
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She lived her whole life in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/div>\n
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She was educated at Price’s School for Young Ladies.<\/div>\n
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She studied art under Sarah Ward Conley, a Nashville artist who had studied with French artist Julien (or William?) Bouguereau.<\/div>\n
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She married John Hunter Orr,\u00a0December 12, 1894 at the age of 25.\u00a0 John Hunter Orr was also from a wealthy family.\u00a0 He owned a successfull wholesale grocery business with his 4 brothers.<\/div>\n
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The Orrs had 3 daughters:\u00a0 Mary Hunter, Virginia Claiborne, and Anne Champe (born Aug. 2, 1899).\u00a0 The daughters were reported to have continued their mother’s business (Anne Orr Studio) after her death for a short time.<\/div>\n
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All three daughters were married by the time their father and Anne’s husband, John, died in 1928 (Anne’s age=59 years).<\/p>\n

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She was known to live in a big house at 130 Twenty-First Avenue South in the Vanderbilt University area of Nashville, TN.\u00a0 She ran her business from the basement of this house selling needlework supplies and Anne Orr’s designs.\u00a0 The house is reported to no longer stand today.\u00a0 She was purported to live elegantly and had\u00a0a ‘house man’, cook and maid.\u00a0 It was a stately home and was supposedly filled with intricate curios and art.\u00a0 She also drove her own car.<\/div>\n
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She died in Nashville on October 26, 1947 at the age of 78.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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