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04-015; Three Children

1900-1909
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Mounted Photograph c. 1900-1905
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 2.625" x 4" on a 3.5" x 5.25" mount

Posed in front of the family's Ocean Wave quilt (or quilt top as quilting lines appear to be missing) these three siblings are on best behavior. Ocean Wave quilts are good candidates for scrap fabrics, as the quilt in this photograph shows a use of plain and printed fabrics.

-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).

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