1847 A Lost Album Quilt

 

Mary Jane Ewing of Perryville (Maryland?) dated her quilt block 1847.

She may have called the group project an "album quilt" as we find the term in use that year...

Thanks to the forgetful Robert B. Rust who advertised in the Washington Union for a lost "handsome album quilt." We can hope it was returned to Mr. Phillips's store, which seems to have been a tailoring and dry goods shop catering to men's fashions.

Cathy Erickson's Collection

1847 Martha Mendenhall, East Nottingham, Maryland

Lydia Preston, Plum Grove, 1847

Handsome album quilts were indeed the thing in 1847--- a few dated blocks.

"Tripping lightly down the river

Frigid years may flit apace.

Still thy heart will guard the giver

On the scroll of thought, a place.

Lizzie, loved one think of me!"

Rebecca Hendricks, Maryland

Suzanne Francis from a quilt in the Pat Nickols Collection

at the Mingei Museum

National Museum of American History

For Mary Hill from women of the Presbyterian Church,

Maltaville, New York

Philipa (?) and Rachel Bradway