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Show Fig. 90 Quilt. Salt Lake City. Twentieth Ward Relief Society. Cotton with applique. 1870. Quilt: L: 225 cm. W: 197.5 cm. Patch: L: 28.75 cm. W: 26.75 cm. Collection of DUP, Salt Lake City (artist's rendering by Florence Truelson for the Index of American Design). This quilt was made in 1870 as a gesture of friendship for Margaret Smoot, president of the Twentieth Ward Relief Society, by the members of that Relief Society, who included many prominent Utah women. » Fig. 91 (upper left, facing page) Sampler, Nauvoo temple. Utah. Ann Eckford. Textile. Ca. 1851. H: 55 cm. W: 41.25 cm. D: 2.5 cm. Collection of LDS Historical Department. A similar sampler signed "Jean Eckford" and dated 1851 hangs in the Beehive House. It was apparently modeled after the plate manufactured in England by J. Twigg bearing a similar scene of the Nauvoo temple. 96 |