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Quilters' Journal, No. 15, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 1981
March 1981
Editor(s): Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
Editor: Joyce Gross
Publisher: Joyce Gross
Research Assistant: Winifred Reddall
Contributors: Cuesta Benberry, Molly Favour, Elizabeth Mulholland
Circulation Manager: Florence P. Smith
Front Matter, by Joyce Gross
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Lillian Walker by Joyce Gross
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Storrowton by Joyce Gross
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Doing Research - Part II by Sally Garroutte
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Age of Heirloom Quilts by Florence Peto
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Hatfield-McCoy "Victory Quilt" by Cuesta Benberry
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Mississippi River Trip by Jean J. Street
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Letters to the Editor, Joyce Gross
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What's Doing in Kansas
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Found: Missing Stearns and Foster pattern by Cuesta Benberry
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Even Silk is Adulterated by Barbara Brackman
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Little Women Quilt
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Dismemberment of Poland
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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Table of Contents and Introduction
Gross, Joyce, Quilters' Journal
1981
From Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1981. Biography of Fairfield, Iowa quiltmaker.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
The First National Quilt Contest
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
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Advise on how to write a scholarly paper.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
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Tips on dating quilts.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
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Reprint of a photo in Life Magazine, May 22, 1944.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
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A Sunburst quilt in an Antebellum home.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
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Letters to the Editors
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Also Classifieds and QJ notices.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Story of a rare Mountain Mist batting wrapper.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
A transcript from an article published in 1896 in the Maine Farmer.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Origins of Marion Cheever Whitesides quilt pattern.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Spotlight on a textile in the DAR museum.
University of Texas at Austin
Joyce Gross’ collection is housed in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her collection includes more than 200 quilts and quilt tops. Her related research materials, include books, journals, exhibit catalogs, subject and biographical files, patterns and kits, visual materials, and ephemera documenting twentieth-century quilting history.
Michigan State University Museum
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. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Michigan State University Museum
2021
In 1928, the Stearns & Foster Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, repackaged its cotton batting and became a potent force in promoting quilts. Through national advertising and company sponsored quilt exhibits, the firm increased sales of Mountain Mist batting and also created a demand for its wrapper patterns.