1949 Emma Mundorff's "Flower Garden" Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1949
name: label: maker
content: Mundorff, Emma Culp
notes: label: Description
content: Over 5,000 hexagonally shaped patches of plain and printed cottons were used to create the quilt. It is outline-quilted at 10 stitches per inch. It was quilted on a frame made by Emma’s grandfather in 1833. The frame was used in the family until it was donated with the quilt in 1988.
label: Description
content: Emma Mundorff’s grandfather, Philip Snyder, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1801. He and his wife, Maria, immigrated to the U.S. in 1832 and settled near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Granddaughter Emma Culp was born in 1869. Her family farm, “Culp’s Hill,” is part of Gettysburg Battlefield history. She married Jacob Mundorff (1863-1915) in 1886.
label: Description
content: Emma made quilts for herself, her four children, and eight grandchildren. Her masterpiece, “Flower Garden,” was made in 1949 when she was 80 years old.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Gettysburg
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 Robert B. Widder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0123.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0123.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0123
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, 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 72 in; 218 cm x 182 cm