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06-014; 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

Another view of quilts on display at the 1938 Detroit News quilt show. In her 1939 New Year's Day column, Edith summarized, "The biggest quilt show ever held was the high spot of the year with nearly 2,000 quilts on display and over 88,000 visitors to see them."
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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