Here's a beautiful book cover
for a new book by Kalinda Page & Jack McElroy
A father-daughter team
Kalinda and Jack's Forgotten Angels: The Lives of African American Women Who Served as Nurses in the Civil War is easy-to-read, written for the middle-grade school audience with extensive research about Black women during the Civil War.
At about $8 it would make a great stocking stuffer for anyone interested in Civil War women---anyone ages 10-100.
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The cover features a portrait of Susie King Taylor by Samuel Bridgham Jr. in the collection of Steve Restelli. I am pleased to say I connected the authors with the photo that I came across when looking for information about the Bridgham family who once owned a Civil War quilt in my collection.
We are working on a Moda fabric collection
based on the Bridgham quilt. Ladies'
Legacy should be in shops in March.
Read more about the older Samuel Bridgham and this quilt here:
Photo of a woman thought to be Susie King Taylor (1848-1912),
attributed to Samuel W. Bridgham, Jr, about 1889
Steve Restelli:
I have collected antique photographs for more than 40 years, and this image is just amazing. I purchased this in a group large format of glass plate negatives that came from the Bridgham estate in Seekonk, Massachusetts, only 40 miles south from where Susie lived. There is so much feeling, detail and wonderment that surrounds this image....Samuel W. Bridgham was the photographer. I do not know much about him either, except that he was once the president of the New York Camera Club, and he was very wealthy.See Restelli's facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/230905310740264/
And here's what I know about Susie King Taylor and a quilt she made:
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2020/01/susie-king-taylor-her-gar-quilt.html