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02-009; Young Child Post Mortem
1860-1869
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Rockford, Illinois, United States
Carte De Visite (CDV) c. 1862-1870
Photographer: G. W. Barnes, Rockford, Illnois
Size: 2.5" x 4"
Sometime in the 1860s, in Rockford Illinois, a young child passed away and the unbearable event was immortalized by photographer G.W. Barnes. What looks like a patchwork quilt on top of the baby, on closer examination, is probably a fringed textile, like a shawl. I did include this image because of its rarity and becuase it represents an attempt on the part of the maker to create the look of a patchwork quilt.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
Photographer: G. W. Barnes, Rockford, Illnois
Size: 2.5" x 4"
Sometime in the 1860s, in Rockford Illinois, a young child passed away and the unbearable event was immortalized by photographer G.W. Barnes. What looks like a patchwork quilt on top of the baby, on closer examination, is probably a fringed textile, like a shawl. I did include this image because of its rarity and becuase it represents an attempt on the part of the maker to create the look of a patchwork quilt.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
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Finley, Janet E.
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