1890 - 1910 Alma Starr's Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1910
name: label: maker
content: Starr, Alma Baker
notes: label: Description
content: Alma Baker Starr crafted this quilt in the “Wild Goose Chase” or “Odd Fellows’ Cross” pattern. The quilt is composed of a vast sampling of late 19th-century and early 20th-century fabrics. Geometrics, florals, and polka-dots printed on cotton; plaids and florals printed on wool/cotton; florals printed on wool; solid colored wools; and silk and plain white cotton are all represented. The quilt has a white cotton lining and cotton filling. It is quilted to accentuate the pattern, seven stitches per inch.
label: Description
content: Alma’s granddaughter, Alma Rosenbaum, donated the quilt in 1969. Her grandmother, Alma (nee Baker) Starr was born July 8, 1856, and died January 21, 1946, in Richfield Springs, New York.
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: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Leo Rosenbaum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14866
label: catalog number
content: T14866
label: accession number
content: 282099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton, wool, silk, wool/cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 in x 85 in; 218.44 cm x 215.9 cm