Quilts--United States--History

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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 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...

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 papers contain correspondence, conference materials, speech and class notes, articles and publications, and research regarding Nickols' research as a quilt and fabric historian and collector.

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Roderick Kiracofe, Quilt Papers contains correspondence, quilt exhibition postcards and catalogs, magazine articles featuring Kiracofe, American quilt history research and notes, royalties and contracts, manuscript drafts, and photographs of quilts and images related to Kiracofe’s publications, The American Quilt and Cloth and Comfort, and other works.