Royal Album, c. 1868 (Block Format Quilts)
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Royal Album, c. 1868Maker: Unknown The prominent Methodist family names inscribed on this quilt are young girls, ages 6 to 15, plus two older women who may have assembled the quilt. Its fabrics date to the late 1860s, when these girls were living in Cowlitz County, Washington Territory and Columbia County, Oregon. Reverend H.J.B. Royal had served this area as circuit preacher from 1855 to 1857, and very likely received this quilt in 1868 on the occasion of his second marriage to Emma Cornell. |