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One Patch Quilt

One Patch Quilt - Quilt
Accession #: 3157.8
Title: One Patch Quilt
Object Type: Quilt
Participants:
Physical Description: Names are embroidered on each of the 378 blocks in this piece. It has alternating pink and white squares. It is not quilted, but is tied together with pink yarn/floss.
Description: Names were embroidered diagonally across each of the 378 pink and white blocks in this piece. Donor information indicates that the quilt may have been made as part of a fundraising activity; possibly, each person whose name appears paid to have his or her name included.
Category: Textiles
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Bedding (Furnishing)
Geographical Reference: Davenport (Washington->Lincoln County)
Dimensions:
Object L x W 83 x 69 "
Materials/Techniques:
cotton (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
Names embroidered in each block. Nancy Rowley noted only some of the names: Gillespie, Dart, Spencer, Henry, Williams, Lafferty, CD Wieghtman, Mary Jonette, J.L. Smith, Russell, D.R. McKinney, Josephine Smith, Lilas McKinney, Helena Weitz, Edna Murphy, Farrow, Emma Mason, Forest, Thessie Lathom, Hicks, Mrs. E.P. Griffith, JHM McDowell & EE, Marg Bristol Perringer, Mrs. Ruby Colmon, Harry Colmon, JD Lyon, Luella Halverson Butler, Alma Thayer, Sallie Price, JM McCoy, Mitch Burkland, Maude Brown, Emily Sinclair, Chas. Bartell, Victor Graff, Ernest Snodgrass, Maude Morris, Eliz Clark, Laura McKinnon, Mrs. JA And(?), Mrs. Wolff, Mrs. Robinson, Anna Paul, EW Porter Babbitt, Hattie Murphy, Sarah Huffman, Wayne Moe, Kathleen Myers, Ella Rinker, Polly Simmond, Stella Sailor, Lola Fields, Alice Roberts.
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. June Colman, 1986

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