Civil War Era Quilt Exhibit in Chicago

Civil War Era Quilts from the Illinois State Museum

is on exhibit at the The Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery

From June 18-September 14, 2012

The gallery at 100 West Randolph, downtown, is open only Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, (closed state holidays.) The Gallery is free and wheelchair-accessible.

Quilt made in Jerseyville, Illinois

 Curator Angela Goebel-Bain Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts has selected 18 quilts from the Illinois State Museum's extensive collection. Highlights:

• An album quilt made by a close neighbor of Abraham Lincoln and includes the names of Springfield women surrounding the Lincolns.
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• A quilt that a wounded Civil War veteran helped his wife create after the war.
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• A quilt made by a soldier's wife from Effingham whose son also volunteered when he came of age.
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• Quilts made by mothers and sisters of soldiers
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• A quilt made by a Jerseyville, Illinois, woman for her granddaughter in Tennessee, whose father was a Confederate officer
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• Quilts representing the array of popular quilt styles of the Civil War period, including five outstanding appliqué quilts from a young Pennsylvania woman's dowry.

Click here for more information

http://www.museum.state.il.us/pressroom/index.html?NPR=1127