1887 Clara E. Houghton's Comforter
date: label: date made
content: 1887
name: label: maker
content: Houghton, Clara E.
notes: label: Description
content: "To be made for the Industrial Exhibition March 23-24 1887. H.H.S. Clara E. Houghton (Please return).” No other information was provided with the donation. A large Industrial Exhibition opened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August 1886 and continued to be a huge success through 1887. A Clara Houghton was listed as a teacher in 1876 in Stearns County, Minnesota, (District 101) in the 1915 <I>History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Vol. II </I> by William Bell Mitchell. Probably the quilt was made in Minnesota and exhibited for a short time during the Exhibition.
label: Description
content: Floral motifs in pink, brown, and blue, decorate the roller-printed cotton used for the central part of this comforter. Its 7½-inch border is roller-printed cotton with geometric motifs. It is not quilted, but tied every 5 inches with a heavy 3-ply S-twist cotton thread, keeping the cotton filling in place.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Stearns
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Carmichael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12725
label: accession number
content: 238998
label: catalog number
content: T12725
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 89 in x 79 in; 225 cm x 199 cm