Eve Wheatcroft-Granick, Collection on Quilts
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials on Wheatcroft-Granick's research and writings on Amish quilts and quilt-making. Included is correspondence, research materials and notes on the Amish, photocopied articles about the Amish, as well as a manuscript of a book on the Amish and Quilts. In addition there are some fabric samples, and cassette tapes of interviews with Joyce Brown and Sam Greenburg.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1967, 1980s
Creator
- Wheatcroft-Granick, Eve, 1954- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the University of Nebraska. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the papers or their designees. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Biographical / Historical
Eve Wheatcroft-Granick is a quilt researcher and collector, specializing in Amish quilts. Wheatcroft-Granick grew up in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and received a B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, and a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Granick's interest in the Amish began in the mid-1970s when she traveled throughout the Midwest with her antique dealer husband, David Wheatcroft, in search of Amish quilts. Buying and selling Amish quilts led to collecting them and researching how they were produced.
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Finding aid updated by Sarah Glover, 2023.
- Date
- (cc) 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
archives@unl.edu
