1835 - 1920 Brooke Family's Quilt Top
date: label: date made
content: 1835-1920
name: label: maker
content: Brooke, Edith
label: maker
content: Farquahar, Anna
label: maker
content: Younghusband, Mary Pleasants
notes: label: Description
content: Mary Pleasants Younghusband Brooke made this pieced and appliquéd quilt top at her home in Brooke Grove, Maryland, about 1835-1840. In 1910-1920, the donor (Mary Farquhar Green), her mother (Edith Brooke Green), and grandmother (Anna Farquhar Brooke) added the embroidery, lined the top, and hemmed the edges. Although family tradition held that the piecework and appliqué were done in 1797, the roller-printed cottons that were used for the piecework indicate a later date.
label: Description
content: Mary Younghusband was born in Virginia and married Roger Brooke V in 1804. It is said that her father, Isaac Younghusband, left her a shilling to buy a piece of rope to hang herself for marrying a Quaker. Mary and Roger had five children. Mary died in 1840.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Montgomery county
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Farquhar Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12884
label: accession number
content: 245319
label: catalog number
content: T12884
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, linen, silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 in x 73 in; 191 cm x 185 cm