Waldvogel Archival Collection

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Merikay Waldvogel has collected and researched quilts since the mid 1970s.  Although she has also written about older quilts, her primary interests are in the 20th century:  the 1933 Sears Quilt Contest, Depression Era Quilts, as well as quilt designers, authors, makers (such as Mary Gasperik, whose Star Arcturus is featured, left) and companies that propelled the 20th century quilt styles. Quilts from 1933 Sears National Quilt Contest and ephemera from her personal collection are entered in the Quilt Index.

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Waldvogel Ephemera Collection

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Merikay Waldvogel became an outspoken advocate for saving quilt ephemera such as quilt catalogs, newspaper columns, batting wrappers, advertisements, contest fliers, etc. when she wrote Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression and Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. The ephemera served as reliable primary sources to authenticate the quilts she was researching.

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