Homefront & Battlefield Catalog Available

At the AQSG seminar in the book sales area I found a copy of the catalog from the American Textile History Museum's show Homefront and Battlefield by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett. If you want the latest authoritative book on historical Civil War quilts you must have this one.

Union & Constitution Forever

Elizabeth Moffit Lyle, circa 1861

Smoky Hill Museum

Remember the show is only up until November 25, 2012 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The catalog features many iconic Civil War quilts---from Kansas to Maine.

 

Union & Liberty

Octavia Lewis, 1864

Maine State Museum

 

Many from museums...

like this Gunboat Quilt by Martha Jane Hatter in the collection

of the First White House of the Confederacy

 

And several from private collections.

Sanitary Commission Quilt

Caroline Bowen Fairbanks, 1862-3

Vermont Historical Society

See detail below.

The theme is Quilts and Context in the Civil War so there are many artifacts and much information. The book has 231 pages, paperback. $39.95.

 Here's what I know about buying the catalog. Call the ATHM to order it by phone:

978-441-0400 x 243 or 247

Their museum shop webpage:

http://www.athm.org/about_us/museum_shop/

 

You will have many chances to see the ATHM show as it will travel around the country in the next three years.

Future destinations:
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, April 4 – August 31, 2014;
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, September 20, 2014 – January 1, 2015
Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE, February 1, - June 30, 2015.