Phila L Brown
Scituate, Rhode Island
1862
I keep a file of quilts with the dates inscribed.
The list for the first full year of the Civil War
1862 is fairly short.
Amity Powers
North Scituate RI
1862
Betsy Walker
North Scituate
1862
Betsy Woodmansee
Scituate RI
1862
I have photos of four blocks from this Rhode Island top from an online auction. It's set with white
sashing.
A few more quilts date-inscribed 1862:
Signature quilt from the Iowa State Historical Society
Same pattern. This one from an online auction
was made in Ulster County, New York.
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum
has three with that date including this hexagon friendship
quilt possibly from Cheshire, Massachusetts.
#1997_007_0240
See the whole quilt here:
And a Pennsylvania quilt here:
A four-block set from the Carlson collection made by Permelia Ann Watkins in Miami County, Ohio.
http://cdn.firespring.com/images/17ac707e-7e3d-4291-8235-765017cf8feb.jpg
Applique sampler from the Wortendyke Family
See details here:
And a version of the Rose of Sharon
signed by Hannah Custer and Nancy Lehman
(possibly Pennsylvania sisters)
I have 16 quilts inscribed 1861 in the file and only 8 from 1862.
We would have to guess that war was disruptive to everyday
life in many ways.
3 comments:
Thanks for starting my day off with some beauties from 1861-62.
I love seeing quilts from my area, need to go back to the small museum homes in my area and see if I can spy some quilts in the bedrooms.
Debbie
That is interesting about the difference in numbers in the two years. I don't know if the sample is large enough to be a statistic, but it does indicate that there were things we don't think about normally. Research into those numbers would make a great history project for the right person. =)
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