1822 Minerva Gaylord's Quilted White-work Bureau Cover
date: label: date made
content: 1822
label: associated dates
content: 1979 91 29 / 1979 91 29
name: label: maker
content: Gaylord, Minerva
notes: label: Description
content: Below the stuffed-work basket-of-flowers on this fine example of a quilted bureau cover is inked; “Minerva Gaylord Harpersfield 1822 Del Co. N York”. The pattern areas are stuffed with corded cotton in some areas and folded strips of cotton fabric in other areas. It is quilted with a back stitch. The basket motif was popular in the early 19th century.
label: Description
content: Minerva Gaylord was born February 7, 1806. Her parents, Joel Gaylord and Achsah Gibbs, settled in Harpersfield, Delaware Co., N.Y. where she was born. She was the second wife of Abiel Baldwin. They married in 1844. At some point they settled in Volney, N.Y. Later she lived in Eddytown, N.Y. where she died in 1875 and was buried in the Lakemont (Eddytown) Cemetery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Harpersfield
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: Credit Line Restricted
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0168.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0168.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bureau Cover
label: Object Name
content: Furniture Cover, Quilted
label: Other Terms
content: Bureau Cover; Furniture Cover, Quilted; 1822
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 32 in; 48 cm x 81 cm