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Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Merikay Waldvogel, 2002
Waldvogel became an outspoken advocate for saving quilt ephemera such as quilt catalogs, newspaper columns, batting wrappers, advertisements, contest fliers, etc. The ephemera served as reliable primary sources to authenticate the quilts she was researching. In 1992, she acquired a major collection of quilt ephemera compiled by round robin pattern collector, Mildred Dickerson of Birmingham, Alabama. See https://quilti.dev.matrix.msu.edu/view/?type=specialcolls&kid=33-133-81
Her work as a quilt scholar has been far-reaching and prolific. She has curated exhibitions, co-led the Quilts of Tennessee Documentation project (see https://quilti.dev.matrix.msu.edu/view/?type=docprojects&kid=22-83-1), been a primary researcher on the Sears Quilt Contest, Mary Gasperik, Ruth Bond, and Depression-Era quilts. She has authored many publications, served as board members of quilt studies organizations, and has lectured widely.
Merikay has worked closely with the Quilt Index team since it was originally launched as part of a group of projects associated with the Alliance for American Quilts, the Michigan State University Museum, and MATRIX: Center for the Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University. Through her efforts, the entire Tennessee quilt survey was one of the first state documentations to be included in the Quilt Index. Subsequently, Merikay worked on galleries and essays for the Quilt Index, including the Mary Gasperik Collection, Printed Panels for Chintz Quilts: Their Origin and Use, Mary Gasperik, Her Life and Her Quilts, and the 1933 Sears National Quilt Contest Discoveries.
-- Merikay Waldvogel, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 2012; supplemented by Marsha MacDowell, East Lansing, Michigan, August 2020
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Gallery
Chintz Quilt Panels
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Ephemera
Printed Panels for Chintz Quilts: Thei...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Waldvogel Ephemera Collection
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Ephemera
Mildred Dickerson: A Quilt Pattern Col...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Ephemera
The Origin of Mountain Mist Patterns
Waldvogel, Merikay
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1933 Sears National Quilt Contest Disc...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Sears Quilt Contest 01: Introduction
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Sears Quilt Contest 02: The Grand Priz...
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Sears Quilt Contest 03: First Place Wi...
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Sears Quilt Contest 04: Second and Thi...
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Sears Quilt Contest 05: Century of Pro...
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Sears Quilt Contest 06: Commemorative ...
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Sears Quilt Contest 07: Folk Rendition...
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Sears Quilt Contest 08: Souvenir Centu...
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Sears Quilt Contest 09: Familiar 1930s...
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Sears Quilt Contest 10: Kit Quilts in ...
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Sears Quilt Contest 11: Impact of the ...
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Sears Quilt Contest 12: Other Sears Co...
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Essay
Mary Gasperik (1888-1969): Her Lif...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Gasperik 01: Masterpiece Quilts
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Essay
Mary Gasperik and the Tuley Park Quilt...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Essay
Mary Gasperik and the Detroit...
Salser, Susan
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Gasperik 02: Antique Quilt Design Sour...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Gasperik 03: 1930s Quilt Pattern Sourc...
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Gasperik 04: Kit Quilts
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Gasperik 05: Gifts for Children
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Gasperik 06: Gifts for Weddings & ...
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Gasperik 07: Appliquéd Blo...
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Gasperik 08: Mystery Quilts - Unidenti...
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Gasperik 09: Wholecloth Quilts
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Gasperik 10: Practical Quilts
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Ephemera
Quilts in the WPA Milwaukee Handicraft...
Waldvogel, Merikay
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Florence LaGanke Harris, aka Nancy Pag...
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