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06-016; Mrs. Sylvia Carlen with an boy and girl

1930-1939
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs; The Detroit News
Detroit, Michigan, United States
1952, Snuffy McGill, Detroit, Michigan

Mrs. Sylvia Carlen, age 82, holds a "Mother's Flower Garden" on her lap while her grandchildren, Lois and Verry Deneau, watch attentively. Mrs. Carlen has won over 140 ribbons for her quilts since 1911.
Photo taken by Snuffy McGill, Detroit, Michigan, 1952. From The Detroit News archives. Courtesy of Janet Finley.

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

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