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Cuesta Benberry Quilt Kit Collection

Cuesta Benberry was one of the twentieth-century's pioneers of research on American quiltmaking. She collected over 300 quilt kits and her estated donated them Michigan State University Museum in 2008.

Cuesta Benberry was one of the twentieth-century's pioneers of research on American quiltmaking and she was the pioneer of research on African American quiltmaking. When she passed away on August 23, 2007, she left behind a legacy of public scholarship and her collections. After her death her family offered her collection to the Michigan State University Museum due to family connections to MSU and Cuesta’s own endorsement of the MSU Museum’s continued dedication to research, collection development, education, and exhibition of quilts made by African Americans and other minority populations. The museum also then acquired Cuesta’s extensive collection of over 300 quilt kits (typically including instructions and the fabrics needed to complete a quilt top).


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  • Museum

    Michigan State University Museum

    Michigan Quilt Project

  • Documentation Project

    Black Diaspora Quilt History Project

  • Collection

    Quilt Treasures

    Worrall, Mary

  • Ephemera

    Finding Aid: Cuesta Benberry Ephemera ...

    Worrall, Mary

  • Ephemera

    Quilt Cottage Industries: A Chronicle

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Contents, Foreward, and Preface

    Horton, Laurel; Garoutte, Sally; Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    White Perspectives of Blacks in Quilts...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 15, Volume 4, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Found: Missing Stearns & Foster patter...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Hatfield-McCoy "Victory Quilt"

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Quilter's Journal, No. 02, Volume 1, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 07, Volume 2, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 09, Volume 2, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 10, Volume 2, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 11, Volume 3, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 16, Volume 4, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 20, Volume 5, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 22, Volume 5, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 23, Volume 6, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 24, Volume 6, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 27, Volume 7, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Journal, No. 28, Volume 7, I...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Twentieth Century Game Plan "Naming th...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Second Thoughts on Evolution of a Quil...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Referring Back - The Summer Issue, Win...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    The Paradox of the Sunbonnet Girl Quil...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Hatfield - McCoy Victory Quilt

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Cathedral Window, Hatfield McCoy - Par...

    Kelley, Helen

  • Ephemera

    Quilters' Hall of Fame, Jonathan Holst...

    Garoutte, Sally

  • Ephemera

    Robert Frost - Part II, Help Wanted, C...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Stears & Foster - Part III

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    The Elephant's Child, Suellen Meyer Ac...

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Twentieth Century Game Plan

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Cuesta Ray Benberry, The Search for Sl...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Cuesta Benberry: Part II

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    Study Centers, Correction…

    Gross, Joyce

  • Ephemera

    State Historical Quilt Projects, The S...

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Periodical Abbreviations

    Benberry, Cuesta

  • Ephemera

    Quilter's Calendar

    Mill Valley Quilt Authority

  • Ephemera

    Womenfolk 22. African American Quilts:...

    Breneman, Judy Anne

  • Story

    Quilt Treasures Presents: Cuesta Benbe...

    Justine Richardson