1840 - 1845 Rebecca Diggs's Commemorative Appliqued Quilt Top
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1845
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This cotton quilt top was found at a fair in Montgomery County, Maryland. The appliquéd designs of the blocks are similar to many found on Maryland album quilts of the mid-19th century. One block is signed in ink, “Rebecca Diggs.”
label: Description
content: A log cabin with a barrel marked “Hard Cider” and a raccoon on the roof appears on another block. Variations of this motif were popular at the time and commemorated William Henry Harrison’s “log cabin and cider” presidential campaign of 1840. The symbols were originated by the opposition party, but Harrison turned the tables and utilized them to identify himself with the common man. He won the election only to die of pneumonia a month after his inauguration.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Daisy Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08755
label: accession number
content: 163105
label: catalog number
content: T08755
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 87 in x 87 in; 220 cm x 222 cm