1975 - 1976 New York Special Education Class Bicentennial Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1975-1976
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: A pieced and embroidered quilt with the outlines of the 50 states and the signatures of the governors and the President and Vice President in office at the time of its making. Made by a Special Education class in upstate New York, (Adams) under the direction of teacher Peter Hludzenski, for the Bicentennial in 1975-76. Mr. Hludzenski used the quilt-making process to teach math and hand skills, sewing machine operation, and history. The project took 5 months to complete and involved 12 students. The students' work was presented at a Very Special Arts Festival, and Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith was so impressed she paid for a Disney World vacation for the class.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Adams
label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Education
label: related event
content: Bicentennial Celebration of the American Revolution
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Peter Hludzenski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0288.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0288
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0288.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pieced; embroidered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 144 in x 120 in; 366 cm x 305 cm