1850 - 1870 Patience Ramsey's Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1870
name: label: maker
content: Ramsey, Patience
notes: label: Description
content: Patience Ramsey pieced this quilt with four-pointed stars set with white diamonds, a pattern published in <I> Godey’s Lady’s Book </I> in March 1851. Although no name was given to the design in the magazine, in recent times it is known as “Job’s Troubles.” The roller-printed cottons used for the quilt date from the 1850s.
label: Description
content: Patience Ramsey was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in 1832. She married William Gutshall and they had thirteen children. She died in 1880. This quilt and another in the Collection were donated by her granddaughter about 100 years after Patience stitched them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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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 Mrs. F. Morton Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13211
label: accession number
content: 250982
label: catalog number
content: T13211
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: 93 in x 85 in; 237 cm x 217 cm