Embroidery Signature quilt

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Title Embroidery Signature quilt
Creator Utah Quilt Guild
Contributor Christensen, Jean C.
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1883
Date Digital 2012-07-23
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah); Virden (Ill.); Macoupin County (Ill.)
Subject Quilting--Utah--History; Quilts--Utah--History
Description Image of Embroidery Signature quilt created in 1883 by an unknown quilter. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Jean C. Christensen as part of the Utah Quilt Guild's documentation days held from 1988-1994. Estimated date of fabric in quilt-1883; Jean purchased the quilt at a antique shop, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1980; this quilt is an autograph quilt with 514 signatures. Jean found the signatures of two Presidents of the United States (Benjaman Harrison and Grover Gleavland). It is 111 years old
Collection Number and Name 1878; The Utah Quilt Heritage Records
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Rights
Relation http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99929
File Name 1878_12_05_JC6.pdf
Conversion Specifications Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm
ARK ark:/87278/s6jt0gz3
Setname uum_uqhr
ID 1065027
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jt0gz3
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