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Ellen Tucker Emerson's Civil War
Lidian (Lydia) Jackson Emerson enjoying breakfast in bed withher cats. Sketch by her daughter.Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) in 1860At 17 Ellen returned from school in western Massachusetts to the...
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Herbarium #12: Hop Vine for Sarah Josepha Hale
Herbarium #12: Hop Vine for Sarah Josepha Hale byKathy SuprenantSarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)Hop Vine is a rather practical pattern to recall the great romancer of flowers Sarah Hale, editor of...
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2024 Applique: Kentucky Classic Block of the Month
We have big plans for applique this year and it all starts in three weeks.We've long admired Garrard County's appliqued medallionslike Amanda Estill Moran's recorded by the Kentucky Quilt Project.See...
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Washington Whirlwind #3: Lincoln's Platform
Washington Whirlwind #3: Lincoln's Platform by Becky BrownPurple for Mary Lincoln's favorite color, set with black & white for ours.Lincoln's political platform was enough of a threat to the South...
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Ellen Marcy McClellan's Civil War
Mary Ellen Marcy (1838 - 1907) & husband George B. McClellan in 1862When the Civil War began Nellie McClellan was in her early 20s living in Cincinnati. Married about a year to George McClellan,...
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Kentucky Classic #1: Kentucky Reel & Amanda Estill Moran
Kentucky Classic #1: Kentucky Reel by Becky CollisWe begin a rather complicated applique block of the month series for 2024 today with the first block of our Kentucky Classic.Becky C. will be glad to...
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Mary Smith's Sad Tale
Caroline Healey Dall tells us one more tale of the heartbreak of slavery in her diary in December, 1842.Caroline from Massachusetts had taken a position as Assistant Principal at Miss Lydia English's...
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Washington Whirlwind #4: Next Door Neighbor
Washington Whirlwind #4: Next Door Neighbor by Becky CollisWe've been looking at the Lincoln White House from the view of the Taft family who lived close by. Julia recalled cutting through the grounds...
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Message in a Civil War Spool of Thread
The Huntington Library has an interesting item in their collection:A wooden spool of thread (looks like a Coats & Clark's spool.)Inside the hole is a coiled piece of paper.The curators and staff...
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Kentucky Classic #2: Kentucky Wildflower for Caroline Amelia Moore
Kentucky Classic #2: Kentucky Wildflower for Caroline Amelia Mooreby Elsie RidgleyThe individual design units here, the conventional rose and simple leaves are planted in an absurdly small...
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Baltimore Album with Civil War Imagery from Debby Cooney
Elizabeth A. Chanceaulme Sutton's block in a rather late Baltimore Album quilt top with unusual Civil War imageryAs most BAQ's date from the 1840s & 1850s, Union slogans are unusual. Baltimore...
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Washington Whirlwind #5: Road to the White House
Washington Whirlwind #5: Road to the White House by Jeanne ArnieriAfter Abraham Lincoln was elected the family closed their Illinois house and made plans to travel to Washington in the spring of 1861....
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Eunice Bullard Beecher's Civil War
A silk quilt dated 1850 by Helen M. Wilkes of Brooklyn, New York, a gift to Eunice Bullard Beecher, wife of Brooklyn Minister Henry Ward Beecher. The pattern is a variation of the Full Blown Tulip or...
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Harriet Sage Doyle's Civil War
Quilt attributed to Harriet Sage Doyle as it hasa label on the reverse "WBD, AD 1861." WBD is Ohioan William B. Doyle,who had four wives. Harriet Sage was his wife in 1861, his second wife. A...
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Kentucky Classic #3: Kentucky Carnation for Eliza Hoskins Farris
Kentucky Classic #3: Kentucky Carnation byElsie Ridgley. Elsie is doing the block-by-block setrather than the medallion. Many of her fabrics are WilliamMorris reproductions.Kentucky Classic #3:...
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Anna McNeill Whistler's Civil War
Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler (1804-1881)When the Civil War began Anna was a widow. Husband George, a railroad engineer working for Russia's Tsar, had died of cholera there in 1849.George Washington...
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Washington Whirlwind #6: Columbian Puzzle
Washington Whirlwind #6Columbian Puzzle by Denniele BohannonColumbian Puzzle recalls the District of Columbia wherethe Lincolns lived for the four years of Civil War.One puzzle:Why does it have such a...
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Marie Virginie Trahan Ternant Avegno's Civil War
New Orleans on the Mississippi RiverIn 1860 New Orleans was the sixth largest American city with a population of about 170,000, most of whom were identified as "Creole" from French, Spanish and...
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Kentucky Classic # 4: Goldenrod for Belle Robinson
Kentucky Classic # 4: Kentucky Goldenrod for Belle Robinsonby Elsie RidgleyIn the late 1930s the Federal Writers' Project had the excellent idea of interviewing older Americans such as ex-cowboys and...
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The Lint & Bandage Mania in Boston
Soldiers marching on Washington Street, Boston Caroline Healy Dall witnessed an impressive community event in Boston in late August, 1862. Shocked to hear that Confederate forces had badly defeated the...
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