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04-101; Soldier's Friends Club

1910-1919
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Galesburg, Illinois, United States
Toned Matte Silver Print c. 1917-1918
Photographer: Osgood, Galesburg, Illinois
Size: 4" x 6"

A group of fourteen young volunteers pose with their two color quilt of alternating squares - most likely Turkey red and white. Their sharp uniforms are suggestive of the American Red Cross worker's uniforms used during World War I. This group of young girls called themselves members of the Soldier's Friends Club. The photographer, Osgood, operated Osgood Photo Supply Co., 330 East Main Street, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, around 1917.

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

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