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Jean Renli Jurgenson is a quilt artist based in Walnut Creek, California.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of correspondence with galleries, publications, collectors, and artists such as Jean Ray Laury and Nancy Halpern; interviews; articles and reviews; catalogues; resumes; lectures and talks; workshop proposals; teaching materials, class and workshop information; certificates; slides; designs and drawings; photocopies of artworks; book descriptions and covers; website printouts, some photographs; and exhibit files which include correspondence, loan agreements and contracts,...

Scope and Contents The papers contain quilt exhibit catalogs, a guest book, promotional and media campaign materials, correspondence, articles and news clippings, design and layouts, agreements and proposals, photographs, and souvenirs from the exhibit "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" at the American Folk Art Museum in 2011. The papers also contain scrapbooks of the quilts of Joanna Rose, publicity related to various exhibits, an autograph book, and materials related to the...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials related to Jonathan Holstein's work as a collector and scholar in the field of quilt studies. The materials cover a time span of over thirty years, from Holstein's entrance into the quilt field in the late 1960s up until the late 1990s. Included in the collection are extensive correspondence files, quilt archives kept by Holstein, files related to exhibitions where Holstein's quilts were featured, and slides of the quilts. Additionally, the collection...

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The records consists of a Curriculum Vitae, sketches and artist statements, letters, photographs, slides, notes and description, and a book. The collection also includes materials related to Bets Ramsey and Masako Nishikata.

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The records contain designs and description of the artwork "Conflict No. 6/Mugging."

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The records contain artist statements and postcards related to the artwork "Soft Summer Gone."

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The records contain publications featuring the work of Judy Mathieson and a poster from Quilt National 1979.

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The records contain artist statements, designs and processes, correspondence, a poster, a journal, and digital media with oral history videos of Herman Chun, journal entries, and photographs related to the artwork "Legislating Love."

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The records contain artist statements, a resume, postcards, and a booklet related to the artwork "Robo Sapien Agent One."

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The most significant portion of the materials are research files on quilts and textiles, which are dated from 1918 to the present. There are also newsletters, magazines, pattern books, and materials on quilt judging. Some of the items relate to institutions or groups such as the American Quilters Society, the Women of Color Network, and the Quilt Conservancy.

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The records contain photo-tracings, photographs, drawings, designs, postcards, and original working sketch related to the artwork "And Crown Her God with Brotherhood."

Content Description The Laurel Horton, Quilt Paper contains Laurel Horton’s correspondence, interviews, publications, personal journals, quilt exhibition materials, quilt scrapbooks, conference and workshop presentations, American Quilt Study Group seminars, and quilt research materials including English, French, Swedish, African American quilts, and other research. Photographs and slide presentations include “Hands All Around,” Archives of Appalachia presentation, 1991 trip to Ireland, “Quilts: The Irish...

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The records contain artwork, materials used to create artworks, correspondence, an award, and publications.

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Liz Axford, Quilt Papers includes notes, sketchbooks, journals, correspondence, pamphlets, flyers, quilting patterns, photographs, and CDs related to Axford’s quilts and quilt exhibitions.

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The materials include 13 scrapbooks created by Louise Howey, first President of the Lincoln Quilter's Guild, that represent her personal documentation of quilting from as early as the 1960s. There are also patterns, correspondence, and misc. publications.

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The most significant portion of the materials are correspondence and fabric swatches created by Reproduction Fabrics. The fabric samples are reproductions of fabrics from 1775-1970.

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The collection includes three composition books created by Marion Esposito. Each of the books is filled with newspaper clippings related to quilt patterns, such as "The Nursery Rhyme Quilt" created by Ruby Short McKim and published about 1921, and the "Nancy Page Garden Quilt" and "Alphabet Quilt," published between 1928 and 1930. There are numerous patterns published under the bylines of Nancy Cabot and Hetty Winthrop, Nancy Page, and Laura Wheeler, among others.

Scope and Contents Scope and Content: The Mary Bywater Cross, Quilt Papers contains the personal papers of quilt historian, Mary Bywater Cross including correspondence, quilt exhibition catalogs and exhibit planning, American quilt history research, and historical and quilt conferences materials. Papers also include early Oregon Quilt Project documentation, Columbia-Willamette Quilt Study Group organization records, artist Marie Lyman’s scrapbooks and research, and Bywater Cross’ personal calendars and...

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The records consist of art and teaching materials including fabric samples, designs, publications, and original artwork.

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The papers consist of slides, photographs and negatives, scrapbooks, antique pattern clipping booklets, lecture notes, publications, materials related to the Nebraska State Quilt Guild, newspaper clippings, certificates and awards, inventories and appraisals, correspondence, notebooks, VHS tapes and DVDs.

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The collection includes published patterns and handmade copies of patterns for quilts and applique. There are magazine and newspaper articles on quilt patterns, quilts, and quilt makers. Additional items include quilt show flyers and product catalogs, information on quilt shop classes, quilt shop newsletters, and items such as photographs.

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The records contain exhibit booklets, postcards, and the artwork "Cartoon for Cloth."

Scope and Contents Mercy Jane Bancroft kept diaries from 1859 until 1900. The diaries detail many aspects of daily life and significantly, the creation of a quilt, now housed at the International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The materials also include a Devotional and Practical Polyglot Family Bible published in 1870 by the National Publishing Company and Jones Brothers and Co. The bible contains information on marriages, births, and deaths within the Bancroft/Blair family. Sixteen...

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The collection includes published patterns and handmade copies of patterns for quilts and applique. There are magazine and newspaper articles on quilt patterns, quilts and quilt makers. Additional items include quilt show flyers and selected newsletters produced by quilt associations and guilds.

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Mona Jeanne Easter, Collection on Quilts contains Lincoln Quilter Guild membership guides, quilt show programs, quilt periodicals, and Nebraska State Quilt Guild membership guides and newsletters.

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The collection contains correspondence, lectures and writings by Halpern as well as posters, pamphlets, quilt show announcements, patterns, newspaper clippings, and journal articles.

Scope and Contents The Nebraska Quilt Project began in 1987 under the leadership of Patricia Cox Crews and Ronald C. Naugle. The two worked together to register over 3,000 quiltmakers and almost 5,000 quilts made in Nebraska or brought to the state by homesteaders or pioneers before the 1920s. The findings of the project were published in Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1991). The records include questionnaires relating to quilts and quiltmakers along with photographs...

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The materials include by-laws, policies and procedures, correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, press releases, news articles, planning files for events, exhibit posters and publicity, photographs, slides, swatch books, a wide variety of quilt-related materials, and materials on textiles.