1850 - 1899 Catherine Hutchins's "Log Cabin" Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1899
name: label: maker
content: Hutchins, Catherine Huff
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Catherine Hutchins used 4,872 fabric scraps to piece 168 six-inch blocks for her “Log Cabin” Quilt. Plain, plaid, printed, and pattern-woven wool and cotton fabrics were utilized. Each of the blocks has a red center. She effectively assembled the varicolored light and dark fabrics to create an overall pattern of light and dark 8 ½-inch squares. The lining consists of 6-inch strips of the same floral-patterned roller-printed cotton with three different ground colors.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Catherine Huff, grandmother of the donor, was born in 1813. She married Stephen Hutchins (1814-1903) and lived in Cape Porpoise (Kennebunkport), Maine. She died in 1903.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. John W. Gough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08473
label: accession number
content: 158248
label: catalog number
content: T08473
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 85 in x 74 in; 217 cm x 189 cm