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Top By: Trowbridge, Mary Anne Mason
Period: 1876-1900
Date: 1886
Location Made: Wisconsin (WI) USA
Project Name: Permanent Collection
Contributor: DAR Museum
ID Number: 88.25
Layout Format: Crazy
Quilt Size: 56 1/2 inches x 66 3/8 inches
Fabrics: Silk, Solid/plain, Print
Colors: Black, Green, Red
Construction: Machine Piecing, Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, Painting
Quilting Techniques: Not quilted
Purpose or Function: Unknown
Other Notes: Quilt was made by Mary Ann Trowbridge for her daughter Olive Marion Trowbridge Farnsworth when she went to Lawrence College in Rion, Wisconsin in 1886.
Inscription: Grandma O M T (embroidered) 1886 (all located in upper left-hand corner block) Loving Thoughts Quincy Toboggan Club The Woman's Pavillion Philadelphia 1876 (all in lower half of quilt) LOVING THOUGHTS by J.H. Wright (in ink)

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