1845 - 1852 Baltimore Album Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1845-1852
name: label: quilter
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: An elaborate eagle and an American flag block adorn this patriotic example of a mid-19th-century album quilt. Baskets of fruit and flowers, wreaths, and cornucopias, all typical motifs of the period, complete the quilt. Some of the most extravagantly decorated blocks appear on a distinctive group of presentation quilts that were made in or near Baltimore, Maryland, and are now popularly known as Baltimore album quilts.
label: Description
content: The quilt contains both hand and machine quilting. A two-thread chain-stitch machine was used to outline some of the appliquéd motifs and anchor the bias binding on the edges. The background was hand-quilted with feather plumes, clamshells, and diagonal grid patterns, 8-9 stitches per inch.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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. C. D. Rhodes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E363155
label: accession number
content: 117457
label: catalog number
content: E363155
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton, velvet, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 87 in x 86 in; 222cm x 219 cm