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1. Baby Blanket, n.d. - Blanket

   Baby Blanket, n.d. Cream border with cream and aqua stripes. French knots along the border and edges with feather stitches in between the cream and aqua stripes. Backing is cream ribbed and in satin.

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2. Basket Quilt, n.d. - Quilt, Bed

   Basket Quilt, n.d.. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted cotton basket quilt. 48 blue baskets of various calico prints are on a white ground. Baskets are 6.75" x 5.375" and are comprised six small half-square triangles for the handle, one large half-square triangle for the bowl and two small half-square triangles for the base. Blocks are sewn on point with white blocks between each and a white 8" border all around with mitered corners. White backing...

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3. Crazy Quilt, 1884 - Quilt

   Crazy Quilt, 1884. Multicolor rectangular crazy quilt is 24.5 x 35.5 inches overall. The quilt includes a top pieced layer with embroidery, batting, and calico backing fabric with the wrong side of the stitches showing. There are multiple colors of fabric in the construction of the quilt and the predominant tones are browns, purples, blues, and greens. There is a dark purple rectangular piece of fabric at center that is 5.25 x 8.5 inches. "L A F"...

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4. Diamond Block Hexagon Quilt, pre-1989 - Quilt, Bed

   Diamond Block Hexagon Quilt, pre-1989. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted velvet and satin hexagon quilt with scalloped sides. The quilt is composed of diamond blocks constructed with 1.25" hexagon pieces, interspersed with black 1.25" hexagon "sashing." Blocks are constructed with fabric in shades of red, blue, brown, and green. There are 15 rows along the height of quilt that alternate with 10 or 11 blocks per row. Each block has a velvet hexagon pi...

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5. Dresden Plate Quilt Top, 1937 - Quilt, Bed

   Dresden Plate Quilt Top, 1937. Cotton quilt top has a machine-pieced ground comprised of 7 off-white blocks down the length of the quilt and 6 across the width. The blocks contain hand-appliquéd 8-petal flowers secured with a black straight stitch. The flowers are composed with multiple calico fabrics and each row shows a different color (from bottom left to right: blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, blue). A blue outer border and pink inner borde...

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6. Dresden Plate Variation Quilt, pre-1975 - Quilt, Bed

   Dresden Plate Variation Quilt, pre-1975. Pattern has a yellow center with purple and white stripes with pointed ends radiating out, forming a flower, on a green ground. These 10" blocks alternate with plain white blocks. Backing is also white and quilt has a 1/4" purple binding. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted. One end of back has a piece sewn on for hanging.

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7. Eight-point Star Quilt, n.d. - Quilt, Bed

   Eight-point Star Quilt, n.d. Wool quilt is comprised of six 17"x18" 8-point star blocks with red plaid star centers on a light blue ground and a red outer border on a dark or light blue ground and red outer corners. Blocks are placed between 9" light blue sashing. Top and bottom edges have 4 1/2" strips of striped blue fabric with red plaid corners exposed at the top only. Item is hand-quilted in a scalloped motif. Backing is olive green and...

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8. Friendship Quilt, 1900 - Quilt, Bed

   Friendship Quilt, 1900. Hand-embroidered friendship quilt made by women of Half Moon Bay, California, to raise money for the Methodist-Episcopal Church to buy carpet. Quilt consists of red circles on a white ground. Circles have individual names embroidered in white stitches. A border of alternating red and white stripes surround the red circles, forming sun rays. Names are embroidered on the white strips with red thread. Quilt appears to be mach...

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9. Grandmother's Flower Garden Parlor Table Cover, c. 1840 - Quilt

   Grandmother's Flower Garden Parlor Table Cover, c. 1840. Grandmother's Garden quilt pattern with colored flowers on a black background with black embroidered centers, all comprised of small hexagons mounted to a pink silk brocade ground with a gray silk backing and stitches around the edges only. Pink ground has selvage edges at top and bottom and added selvage edges to sides. Paper-pieced silk parlor table cover has maroon 3.25" fringe around...

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10. Greer Family Cigar Band Pillow, c. 1890s-1910s - Pillow

    Greer Family Cigar Band Pillow, c. 1890s-1910s. Greer family pillow made from silk cigar bands which have text and image of manufacturers. Cigar bands sewn on front diagonally, sewn together with decorative embroidery in yellow thread. Some of the brands include "Grand Master," "Sandow," "Reina Victoria," and "Uncle Phil." Most of the bands are cream, yellow, and orange, with the notable exception of one red and one light blue. Square with musta...

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11. Hexigon Quilt Wall Hanging or Table Runner, n.d. - Quilt

    Hexigon Quilt Wall Hanging or Table Runner, n.d. This table runner or wall hanging is long and narrow. The top is comprised of multi-colored and pattered hexagons of various materials that include silk, satin, brocade, velvet and possibly cotton, and are also handsewn and paper-pieced. Backing is machine quilted with dark blue satin affixed to wool batting with fan-shaped quilting. Top is not quilted but is sewn to backing at edges. Piece has ...

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12. Log Cabin Quilt, c. 1880-1925 - Quilt, Bed

    Log Cabin Quilt, c. 1880-1925. Hand-pieced log cabin quilt of various materials including cotton, velvet, rayon and possibly wool in multiple colored solids and prints. Log cabin blocks are hand-pieced onto off-white cotton muslin and the blocks are machine-sewn together to form a diamond radiating out from the center. Backing is white cotton and has been affixed to top with hand-sewn whip stitches along the outer edge. Top is basted to backi...

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13. Log Cabin Tied Quilt, c.1900 - Quilt, Bed

    Log Cabin Tied Quilt, c. 1900. Hand-stitched cotton Log Cabin quilt has solid yellow center squares surrounded by strips of solid red, solid and printed white and printed reds, pinks, browns, blues and blacks, depending on the block. The blocks are each approximately 5.5" x 5.5" and the quilt has a total of 168 blocks. Quilt has a solid red cotton backing fabric which is folded over to create the binding. There is no batting between the top a...

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14. Mariners Compass Variation Quilt, pre-1982 - Quilt, Bed

    Mariners Compass Variation Quilt, pre-1982. White hand-pieced quilt is hand-quilted and has a rainbow-colored Mariner's Compass in the center surrounded by a rainbow-colored starburst pattern and green binding. Colored diamonds are quilted in-the-ditch while white squares are quilted with alternating spider web and Dresden plate patterns. White outer border at top and bottom are quilted in diamond motif. Made in Half Moon Bay or Pomponio by A...

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15. Nine Patch Quilt, c. 1853 - Quilt, Bed

    Nine Patch Quilt, c. 1853. Machine pieced and hand quilted cotton quilt. Pink, red, and white nine patch blocks on point alternate with solid white blocks. These are bordered by white triangles placed just inside the striped border. The quilt has 35 blocks with 6 blocks across the width and 7 blocks down the length. Some of the pale pink fabric has faded to almost white, and five of the nine patch blocks have hand-sewn replacement patch squares. ...

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16. Quilt Awarded to Mrs. E.C. Foster for Silk Quilt and Table Cover, 1860 - Medal, Prize

    Quilt Award Medal, 1860. Copper eighth-inch thick medallion has embossed text around the border of one side that reads, "MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION / FOUNDED 1795 INCOR. 1806." Inside this is a floral border separated by four small ovals with embossed images depicting an arm holding a mallet, an eagle with a shield, a city and a figure of an archer. Inscribed in the center is text that reads, "AWARD TO / Mrs. F. C. Fost...

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17. Quilted Bed Cover, c. 1940s - Quilt, Bed

    Quilted Bed Cover, c. 1940s. Green and yellow satin acetate quilted bed cover with wool filling made by the Economy Products Corporation of Chicago, Illinois. The top is green with a green 2" ruffle around the edge. The underside is yellow. Machine sewn and quilted with five squares on point in center forming a diamond with loops extending out from every other square. Chain stitching around the quilt margins, and various sections are also outline...

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18. Quiltmaking on the Coast, December 5, 1963 - Negative

    Quiltmaking on the Coast, December 5, 1963. Black and white negative of Mrs. E. (Geo) Lagomarsino from the San Mateo County Coastside making quilts. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

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19. Rail Fence Baby Quilt, 1935 - Quilt, Crib

    Rail Fence Baby Quilt, 1935. 100% cotton 1930s fabric quilt is hand-pieced and hand-quilted. It is comprised of 224 3 1/2" to 4" blocks consisting of 4 strips of various patterns of fabric. Each block is alternated into vertical and horizontal stripes. Colors are pastels of blue, peach, green, yellows and reds. Patterns include various small prints of ticking, flowers, checks and dots, as well as solids. Pink binding is machine-applied to f...

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20. Rose of Sharon Quilt, March 12, 1863 - Quilt, Bed

    Rose of Sharon Quilt, March 12, 1863. Hand quilted cotton quilt with cream background and appliquéed design of red flowers with yellow centers and green leaves and stems. Edges are bound with green and red cloth. Signed "Susan Beaty / March 12th 1863" in black cross-stitch on the bottom right corner. Quilt has 9 blocks on point with matching floral designs. White triangles surrounding the floral blocks on the outside edges with white squares be...

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21. Rose Satin Comforter, n.d. - Comforter

    Rose Satin Comforter, n.d. Rectangular shape. Peach satin-like material with piped edging. Two rectangular stitched borders, center section has stitched wavy pattern with an oval in the center. Feather filling.

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22. Square-in-square Patchwork Quilt, c. 1883-1885 - Quilt, Bed

    Square-in-square Patchwork Quilt, c. 1883-1885. Quilt is comprised of silk, velvet, satin, and multicolored square-in-square blocks. Many styles of fabric are used including solids, plaids, stripes, and flocked velvet. Quilt is hand-pieced and hand-quilted with various colors of thread including white, tan, and blue but red and maroon ribbon binding has been machine-stitched and overlaps outer blocks. There are 224 finished 5" blocks comprised o...

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23. Star Quilt, circa 1873 - Quilt, Bed

    Star Quilt, circa 1873. Eight pointed cotton star quilt, hand-pieced and hand quilted with machine secured binding (binding is made from folding over backing fabric). The stars use two different calico patterned fabrics with dark red backgrounds. One pattern shows stylistic four pointed black stars with white circles at center and the other shows a pattern of small black rectangles with two white dots. There are alternating blocks of red squares ...

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24. Sun Star Quilt, 1858 - Quilt, Bed

    Sun Star Quilt, 1858. Cotton hand pieced and appliquéd blue and white sun star quilt. Sun star pattern is a Mariners Compass variation. The quilt is comprised of nine blocks in rows of 3 x 3 with pattern pieces in blue calico against a white ground. Individual blocks are approx. 23" square and each has a round center blue sunburst design bordered by four white pieces that comprise the larger square. A feather motif with diagonal grid is quilted...

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25. Triangle Baby Quilt, c. 1868-1872 - Quilt, Crib

    Triangle Baby Quilt, c. 1868-1872. Quilt consists of eleven rows of triangles of a variety of prints and materials that include cotton and silk. Outer edges of triangles are embroidered with crazy quilt stitches in a variety of colors. Backing is pink cotton, binding is either gray or light blue around outer edge, and inner layer is an off-white cotton. A strip (sleeve) of white cotton has been added to the top back section for hanging. ...

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