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05-007; Mrs. Dobbs
1920-1929
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) c. 1923
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Sometime around 1923, Mrs. Dobbs stood in front of her Pyramid string quilt to have her photograph taken. Written in pencil on the postcard's verso is the information that Mrs. Dobbs was Scott's step-mother and Bill Trail's second wife. The name Mrs. Dobbs gave her quilt remains unknown. Pyramid, Sugar Loaf, Flat Iron, and Arrowheads were later names. Mrs. Dobbs chose to string piece triangles and alternate the with plain fabric triangles. She intentionally alternated dark and light strips in her pieced triangles.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Sometime around 1923, Mrs. Dobbs stood in front of her Pyramid string quilt to have her photograph taken. Written in pencil on the postcard's verso is the information that Mrs. Dobbs was Scott's step-mother and Bill Trail's second wife. The name Mrs. Dobbs gave her quilt remains unknown. Pyramid, Sugar Loaf, Flat Iron, and Arrowheads were later names. Mrs. Dobbs chose to string piece triangles and alternate the with plain fabric triangles. She intentionally alternated dark and light strips in her pieced triangles.
-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
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