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Date Created1990-1991

DescriptionThis quilt was made for me as a baby quilt. The animals are individually hand quilted. The quilter says, We were excited about your impending birth and wanted to do something special. Never did...

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TitleJoanna's Quilt

Date Created1994-1996

DescriptionI had made several quilts by the time I made this one, however, I had used a sewing machine and strip piecing techniques. I wanted to learn how to make one purely by hand. I enrolled in a class at the...

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TitleTo My Mother with Love

DescriptionA gift to my mother, Helen Ortoleva Rachiele Mitchell

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TitleStrip Quilt

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionA quilt made by my grandmother from shirts worn by my grandfather. This quilt was used on a twin bed until 2008.

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TitleBaby Quilt

Date Created2015

DescriptionI made this quilt for fun.

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TitleWeekend in Lancaster

Date Created1999

DescriptionI saw this design in a hotel on a weekend visiting the Amish country. I sketched the pattern on a napkin during breakfast thinking it would be a fun design to hand quilt.

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TitleFirst Quilt

Date Created2014

DescriptionThis was my first attempt at a quilt. I'd collected pretty fabrics from Rock, Paper, Scissors in town and saw a sample in the store of the plus sign pattern. I thought that'd be easy to try. I used...

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TitleWhite House Vignette Card

Date Created1894

DescriptionLithograph print: image of White House South Portico and White House Lawn. Children at play on the lawn. Cleveland's signature is at bottom center. Reads: "Grover Cleveland Dec 29. 1894". Olive green...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

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TitleThe Three Little Bears

Date Created1992

DescriptionMy great aunt made this for me as my first baby quilt. It's still to this day my favorite quilt and I still sleep with it every night.

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TitleHungarian workers in the White Owl Cigar Factory, circa 1934

Date Created1934

DescriptionHungarian workers in the White Owl Cigar Factory located on the corner of Somerset St. and Harvey St., New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)