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A Trio of South Carolina Quilts
90" x 82"The South Carolina project recorded three rather unusual quilts in York County. 82" x 78"Unfinished top: 82" x 78"Each is a medallion with a relatively large center pattern. Fabrics include...
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Freedom's Friends #6: Mary Millburn's Canada Lily
Georgann EglinksiBlock # 6 Canada Lily for Mary Milburn (Louisa Jones)Mary Millburn/Louisa F. Jones from William Still's book The Underground RailroadFashion and age in her portrait look more like...
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A New Orleans Ladies Fair
New OrleansApril 20, 1861, "The political news is so important and occupies the minds of all."Salomon de Rothschild visiting Louisiana a week into the Civil War.Salomon James de Rothschild...
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Caroline Holds a Quilting
"The Brothers Assist in the Quilting,"Harper's, April 21, 1883*Emily Pillsbury came to Georgia from New Hampshire in the 1830s to work as a tutor for a plantation family near Savannah. In her 1850...
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American Stars #9: Star of Illusion for the Butlers
American Stars #9: Star of Illusion for the Butlers by Jeanne ArnieriA nine-patch star for the Butlers of Georgia, South Carolina and Philadelphia.Pierce Butler (1744-1822)The first of this Butler...
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Entertainment in a Hospital Ward
Artist: HoppinIn 1865 Frank B. Goodrich published a history of the homefront in the Civil War, The Tribute Book A Record of Munificence, Self-Sacrifice and Patriotism of the American People. Dozens...
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American Stars Block 9 Finishes & Sets
ShawnSaraRobertaJoanEricaDenaChristineJoan's & Dena's photoshopped together.On our Facebook page some seem worried their blocks aren't going to go together as they are working rather blindly one...
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Confederate Bed-Clothes Fit for the Flames
Frances Dallam Peter (1843-1864) and her parents Frances Paca Dallam & Robert Peter in the mid 1840s. The girl had epilepsy, an untreatable and mysterious condition at the time.Despite her...
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Freedom's Friends #7 Abigail Goodwin's Beehive
Block #7 Honeybee for Abigail Goodwin by Becky BrownHoneybee recalls Abigail Goodwin, a devoted member of the Underground Railroad team whose home seems to have been a beehive of activity assisting...
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Nettie Tyler Flanner's Civil War
Elizabeth Stanton, Barnesville, Ohio"Lizzie/Stanton/Barnesville/Ohio/1865" inked in an unpieced central block in an album quilt with dates from 1856 to 1865.Terry Tickhill Terrell published a paper on...
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The Battle Family Quilts, Edgecombe County North Carolina
Star quilt associated with Mary Eliza Battle Dancy Pittman (1829-1905) given to the North Carolina Museum of History in 1964 by Cornelia Pittman Battle. Miss Battle donated 13 family quilts from her...
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American Stars 10: Kansa Star for the Papins & Gonvilles
Block #10 Kansa Star for the Papins & Gonvilles by Becky BrownThis portrait of a Kansa man, known in English as White Plume (1760s -1838), hangs in a library at the White House. He's wearing a...
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Shameless Advertising Copy
Wool crazy quilt, probably dating from about 1900-1930based on the style including the detail in the embroidery, the wool fabrics and the workmanship. Bat or spider an interesting addition.Advertised...
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Cornelia Amory Goddard Loring's Civil War
Collection Rochester Historical Association, New YorkPre-quilted & bound block from a Sanitary Commission quiltassociated with Cornelia Loring's family,pictured in Pamela Weeks's & Don Beld's...
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Freedom's Friends #8 Hetty Reckless: Friends & Relations
Block # 8 Friends and Relations for Hetty Recklessby Becky BrownAn orderly block for a woman named Hester Reckless, whose givenname is perfect for a woman who never abided by the rules.Hester...
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Abba Goddard's Civil War
A Maine Quilt made for soldiersFrank Leslie's IllustratedBuilding housing the Clayton General Hospital in Harper's Ferry, Virginia Abba Ann Goddard (1819-1873) was a multi-talented woman who served as...
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American Stars Block 10
Stéphanie FlacherStitchers are keeping up with the American Stars series. We areup to Block #10, the Kansa Star. Here are six done in Americancolors of red, white and blue.Roberta Goulding...
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Cutting Up an Old Bedquilt
It's a wonder there are any pre-Civil-War quilts left.Here's one well-worn survivor from the years before 1840. It has a lot ofwear in the middle (the reason it's in my home for orphan quilts.)Had...
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American Stars #11: Keepsake Star for the Sedgwicks & Freemans
American Stars #11 Keepsake Star by Becky BrownKeepsake Star is an original design for the Sedgwicks and the Freemans of Massachusetts. The Sedgwicks were another English family who came...
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Lizzie Alsop's Civil War
Elizabeth Maxwell Alsop Wynne (1846-1933)Elizabeth Alsop's diary is in the Virginia Historical Society where we can assume this photograph resides. She's a young teenager here, wearing the...
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