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Biggest Quilt Show in News History Opens

May 23, 1940
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Alice Lane; Marsha MacDowell
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A photo of the Quilt Club Sisters turning in their entries for the 1940 Detroit News Quilt Show.
Biggest Quilt Show in News History Opens
Quilt Sisters Turn in Entries

Admission is free at the Detroit News Quilt Show, which opens at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Naval Armory, East Jefferson Avenue at Belle Isle Bridge, and will cont. through Saturday and Sunday. Since the first News quilt show the Quilt Club sisters Mrs. Emmons Galton and Mrs. Arthur Fisher have entered quilts. Behind them are stacked some of the scores of boxes holding quilts to be exhibited at the show.

​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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