Quiltmakers

Content Description Bole-Becker Quilt Documentary, Records collection contains Betacam and VHS source tapes, finished VHS film, script, correspondence, promotional materials, interview logs and consent forms, and other materials related to the production of the 1998 documentary “Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives" created by Luanne Bole-Becker and Bob Becker.“Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives” is an independently produced documentary by Luanne...

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The interview materials include subject files on individual quilters as well as 136 cassette tapes of interviews and speeches given at various quilting events. The subject files include biographical information and photos or slides of the interviewee, quilts they created or own, and correspondence with Dottie Moore.

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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, 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.

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The collection includes correpondence written to Peto and articles written by her for magazines, such as American Home and Antiques Magazine.

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...

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 materials include an article about "The Great Midwest Quilt Show and Sale," a booklet about the show that contains advice on how to buy an antique quilt. There are several publications produced for quilt shows and museum exhibits, with a catalog for the show "Marie Webster Quilts: A Retrospective," held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1991. The collection contains a piece of centennial fabric from the back of an 1880s quilt.