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05-004; Bedroom

1920-1929
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Silver Gelatin Print c. 1920s
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 3.5" x 5.75"

A Double Irish Chain adorns the bed in this sparse but beautiful bedroom. The quilt's chain is a calico print against a muslin background. Upon closer examination, the quilt was hand quilted in an overall elbow or fan pattern.

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

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