Type: Pieced.<br>Name: Brick Style Patchwork (the quilt is a patchwork like quilt with pieces cut in rectangles).<br>Set Up: Patchwork rectangles with borders.<br>Colors: darks: browns, greens, navy blue, grays.<br>Edging:...
Type: Pieced.<br>Name: Brick Style Patchwork (the quilt is a patchwork like quilt with pieces cut in rectangles).<br>Set Up: Patchwork rectangles with borders.<br>Colors: darks: browns, greens, navy blue, grays.<br>Edging:...
Three leaves, handwritten in black ink on the front sides. The document is in fairly good physical condition. There are staple holes in the upper left corners of each leaf and a small hole in the center of the top of each leaf. There has been a...
A tri-vold brochure describing the life and work of Most Reverend John J. Swint, D.D., LL.D, Archbishop-Bishop of Wheeling. Bishop Swint was born in Pickens, WV.
Tri-fold brochure describing the life and work of James L. Cunningham, a physician in Pickens, WV. At the time of his death in 1965, Dr. Cunningham was the eldest physician in the U.S.
A letter from Watson Bunten to ""Dear Sister"" (purportedly Sirene Bunten), from military camp in Paducah KY. On official stationery of ""The War for the Union"". Describes camp conditions, and has words of...
Jean Lee Latham was born in Buckhannon and graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1925. She went on to become an accomplished playwright and author. She is particularly well-known for her children's books. One of her children's...
One leaf of lined paper, handwritten in pencil on both sides. The song text is written on a school examination form. The document is in fairly good physical condition, with two holes punched in the center of the top of the leaf, a fold in the...
A teenage girl stands in front of a board fence, holding a folded quilt in her hands. Part of a series of photos of a quilting bee at Charity Community Center in Charity, VA.
A woman stands outside holding a folded quilt in front of her. Woman's pocketbook hangs from her left arm. Part of a series of photos on quilting at Lera Rakes' home on Turkey Cock Creek.
Type: Whole cloth-Linsey-woolsey quilt. It belonged to the Samples Family.<br>Set Up: The quilt is made up of two panels of cloth that have been sewn together to make a front and back.<br>Color: the red fabric has been dyed with...
Type: Postage Stamp Blocks (pieced)<br>Name: 16 Patch Postage Stamp<br>Set up: White border and white edging with various pieced colored squares.<br>Colors: Bright yellows, reds, blues, greens, solids and prints.<br>Border:...
Type: Whole cloth.<br>Name: Trapunto/ white work.<br>Quilt has raised and stuffed pattern which resembles either feathers, flowers, or bunches of grapes.<br>Set up: (Stuffed paisley design in center encircled by a leaf pattern...
Type: Wholecloth<br>Name: Wholecloth.<br>The quilt is made by Susannah Skidmore Day. The quilt is believed to have been made while she lived in Harlan County.<br>Set Up: Wholecloth strips that are pieced together. The quilt is a...
Type: Postage Stamp Blocks (pieced)<br>Name: 16 Patch Postage Stamp<br>Set up: White border and white edging with various pieced colored squares.<br>Colors: Bright yellows, reds, blues, greens, solids and prints.<br>Border:...
Type: Whole cloth-Linsey-woolsey quilt. It belonged to the Samples Family.<br>Set Up: The quilt is made up of two panels of cloth that have been sewn together to make a front and back.<br>Color: the red fabric has been dyed with...
Type: Whole cloth.<br>Name: Trapunto/ white work.<br>Quilt has raised and stuffed pattern which resembles either feathers, flowers, or bunches of grapes.<br>Set up: (Stuffed paisley design in center encircled by a leaf pattern...