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02-025; Infant, Post Mortem

1870-1879
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Dover, New Hampshire, United States
Carte De Visite (CDV) c. 1870-1875
Photographer: E.T. Brigham, Dover, New Hampshire
Size: 2.5" x 4"

E. T. Brigham, at one time or another, operated as a photographer in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Dover, Lebanon, and Wolfboro, New Hampshire. The photographer's backmark on this CDV states that his post mortem was taken in New Hampshire. The quilt's modern block name is Broken Dishes.

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

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