Alabama Quilt Search Project
From QuiltIndex
Contact: Birmingham Museum of Art
Documentation Dates: 1987 (in progress)
Parameters: statewide, cut-off date of 1945
Total Quilts: 3,000 (est.)
Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 18
Publication information (if any):
- Beardsley, John et al. Quilts of Gee's Bend. Tinwood, 2002. 192 pages; col illus. ISBN 0965376648 [Alabama]
- Beardsley, John et al. Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, 2002. 432 pages; col illus. ISBN 0971910405 [Alabama]
- Gail Treschsel and Bryding Adams. Alabama Quilts: Black Belt to Hill Country: Alabama Quilts From the Helen and Robert Cargo Collection, Gail C. Andrews, et al. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1982.
- Freedom Quilting Bee, Nancy Callahan, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
- Made in Alabama: A State Legacy. Bryding Adams. (Covering Alabama: 19th Century Quilts and Needlework pg. 99-133) Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995.
- Cotton Country Quilts: South Alabama Quilts and Their Makers. Monroeville, AL: Monroe County Heritage Museum, 1993 (Legacy Historical Quarterly, 20)
- Richardson, Jeri Pamela. The Freedom Quilting Bee Cooperative of Alabama: An Art Education Institution. Ed.D Dissertation, Indiana University, 1969. 262 pages
Database: Is the documentation project a part of the Quilt Index or are records digitized in some database? Please describe. Records housed: Birmingham Museum of Art.
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