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Ephrena Wagner's Eagle Quilt
Eagle with an anchor and a snake, wool embroidery on cotton.Attributed to Ephrena or Elphrena Hennings Gerhard Wagner (1841-1922)Â of Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.82" x 84"The...
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Mulberry Wreath Blocks
Rebecca, Mulberry WreathBlock #2 Cassandra's Circle Block of the MonthCassandra's Circle is definitely a group project. I didn't give you much to go on in Block #2the Mulberry Wreath. Becky, Denniele...
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Martha Washington Souvenir Quilt Top
Quilt top attributed to Martha Washington Dandridge Halyburton (ca. 1760-1857)Collection of the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association.The medallion is pieced of a number of interesting fabrics....(Detail...
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Cassandra's Circle #3: Louisa Cheves McCord's Palmetto
Cassandra's Circle #3 Palmetto Wreath by Becky BrownThe palmetto is South Carolina's symbol.In 1851, ten years before the Civil War began, Marylander John Pendleton Kennedy was surprised to see strong...
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Amanda Hammond Linn's Texas Quilt
A well-worn star quilt that survived the Civil Warbut the peace was more of a threat.Amanda Paralee (Pairalee/Pairlee) Hammonds Linn,Rusk County, TexasFamily history says it was made in 1858Winedale...
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I have a new book---Divided Hearts: A Civil War Friendship Quilt
Or rather, WE have a new book.The back cover features some of your quilts.Actually, the whole book features some of your quilts.You remember our Antebellum Album Block of the Month?It's now a book from...
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Eades Commemorative Oxford, Mississippi
An unusual quilt, a star of silk satins with inscriptions:"Jeff DavisPresidentOf C.S.A.""Oxford.Miss May26, 1865"The quilt, signed by the Eades family of Oxford, Mississippi, was documented in the...
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Yankee Notion #4: New Waterwheel
Yankee Notions #4 New Water Wheel by Dorry EmmerNine-inch blocks, note the needle in the center and the words.Part of Yankee industry was fiddling with things: Yankee ingenuity. A Yankee engineer no...
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Mary Ann Elam Ross's Civil War
Quilt attributed to Mary Ann Elam Ross (1832-1906) Texas. Recorded in the book Texas Quilts, Texas Treasures.Mary Ann's version of the Rocky Mountain or Crown of Thorns design with the unusual...
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Waterwheel Block: Variable Shading
Block 3Yankee Notionsby Laura A.Block #3 WaterwheelPictures from our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/543662069820849/JeanCathyCindyDarleneDenaEricaLauraRobertaSaraShawnLisaAltogether I...
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Irene Sheridan's Memorial Quilt
Hourglass or Broken Dishes quilt with embroidery and the words"Mother Sheridan" under a silk portrait of Philip SheridanPhilip Henry Sheridan 1831–1888Similar to this portrait widely printed at the...
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Fine Finishes
Janet Olmstead has stitched the border to her Hospital Sketches top.Nancy Austin SwanwickErica Cannon did two Sprouts versionsSara Farley's Sprouts top She combined pieced blocks from another...
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Amanda Ragan Stone's Civil War
Amanda Susan Ragan Stone (1822-1892)After the warWhen the Civil War began Amanda Stone was 37 years old, wealthy head of a Louisiana plantation household. Her Brokenburn was on the Louisiana side of...
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Cassandra's Circle #4: Charlotte Wigfall's Texas Star
Cassandra's Circle, Block #4 Texas StarBy Becky BrownCharlotte Cross Wigfall (1819-1893),close friend of Mary Chesnut's in the first years of the War.'Brown's HotelCharlotte Cross Wigfall and Mary...
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Mariah Ethridge Riddell's Civil War
Star quilt attributed to Mariah Ethridge Riddle (Reddell) [1829-1884]88-1/2" x 88-1/2"Historic Arkansas MuseumMariah Etheridge was born in Lawrence County, Tennessee, down by the Alabama state line...
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Antebellum Album---Divided Hearts
Barbara Goetz, Antebellum Album, 2019Collecting pictures of the 2018 BOM, Antebellum Album.The book Divided Hearts should be out in a few weeks.Charlene Bongiorno StephensThese from our Facebook group...
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A Stolen Quilt in Arkansas
Block from a South Carolina album quilt made in the 1840s. Collection of the Charleston MuseumNewspaper accounts tell of a quilt captured during the Civil War in 1864 in Boone County, Arkansas. General...
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Yankee Notions #5: New England
Yankee Notions #5 New England Block byDorry EmmerThe New England Block represents New England's industrial landscape with its clock towers. Middlesex Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts, painted by Fitz Hugh...
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Alabama Album Quilt: Pre- or Post-Civil War?
Many years ago Alabama collector Robert Cargo wrote me about this appliqued album sampler he'd found (I'm sure he wrote other quilt historians too). It's believed to have been stitched in 1857 or 1858...
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Jean's Yankee Notions Blocks 1-5
1 Open BookNotion: ThimblesJean Etheridge is staying caught-up on the Yankee Notions blocks.2 SchoolhouseNotion: ScissorsShe has a thing for black and white!3 Mill WheelNotion: Pins4 Water WheelNotion:...
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