1945 - 1955 Anna Glazer's Modernist Pillow Sham
name: label: maker
content: Stecher, Anna Glazer
notes: label: Description
content: An oblong pillow sham that matches the bedspread (.1) made of gathered half circles of rayon taffeta, machine sewn in patterns to a cotton ground. Colors are burgundy, purple, pink, brown, terra cotta, blue, teal. The center panel is patterned with a rosette of gathered hlaf circles. with four corner rosettes. The edges are finished with teal cording and blue medallions. The back is plain burgundy taffeta. 37.5" x 15.75" Made by Anna Glazer, Bronx, NY, in the 1940s-early 1950s. Her daughter remembered it taking her mother a LONG time to complete.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the grandchildren of Anna Glazer: Laurie Sevret, Mitch Hakoun, Martin Stecher, David Stecher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0137.2
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0137.02
label: accession number
content: 2017.0137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pillow sham