1950 - 1969 Dorothy Overall's Flour-Sack Bassinet Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1950-1969
name: label: quilter
content: Overall, Dorothy
notes: label: Description
content: This bassinet quilt with a framed center design is made of high-quality plain blue and white cotton feed sack fabrics. Dorothy Overall of Caldwell, Kansas, a contestant in many sewing events in the 1950s and 1960s, pieced and appliquéd this quilt on a Pfaff sewing machine she had won in a contest. In 1959 she won the National Cotton Bag Sewing Contest that included a vacation trip to Hollywood as part of the prize.
label: Description
content: According to Dorothy, cotton feed sack fabric was light enough for summer, almost as nice as percale and the colors didn’t fade. Cotton sacks for flour, animal feed and other commodities were produced in many colors and prints. Flour and feed companies found that their sales were often influenced by the popularity of their sacks which were used for clothes and household items.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Advertising Devices
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Feed sack
label: Subject
content: Flour Sacks
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. Dorothy Overall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0102.07
label: accession number
content: 1992.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0102.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt, bassinet
label: Object Type
content: quilts
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: 31 in x 27 in; 79 cm x 67 cm