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06-013; Quilts on display

1930-1939
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs; The Detroit News
Detroit, Michigan, United States
1938
Detroit News Staff Photographer, Detroit, Michigan

View of an aisle showing quilts on display at the 1938 Detroit News quilt show drawing 5,000 visitors every three hours. The show was held at the United States Naval Armory in Detroit.
Photo taken by an unidentified staff photographer, 1938. From The Detroit News archives. Courtesy of Susan Salser.

-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012) and The Detroit News.

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