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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 and Hardman Quilt: Portrait of an Age
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What's Doing in Kansas and Classifieds
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Found: Missing Stearns and Foster pattern by Cuesta Benberry and
Even Silk is Adulterated by Barbara Brackman
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Little Women Quilt and
Dismemberment of Poland
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Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, inside front cover.
Table of Contents and Introduction
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
From Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Number 1-3, 8, 12-13.
Biography of Fairfield, Iowa quiltmaker.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 4, 10-11, 15-16.
The First National Quilt Contest
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 5.
Advise on how to write a scholarly paper.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 6-7, 18-19.
Tips on dating quilts.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 8.
Reprint of a photo in Life Magazine, May 22, 1944.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 9.
A Sunburst quilt in an Antebellum home.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 14.
Letters to the Editors
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 17.
Also Classifieds and QJ notices.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 20.
Story of a rare Mountain Mist batting wrapper.
Quilters' Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013
1981
Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, page 21.
Origins of Marion Cheever Whitesides quilt pattern.
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.