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The Garden quilt by Josephine Hunter Craig of Emporia, Kansas. Craig was an expert quilt maker in a community of outstanding quilters in the second quarter of the 20th century. A number of Emporia women created garden medallion quilts; this is Craig's award-winning version. The cotton quilt measures about 86 inches by 85 inches. It was named one of the twentieth century's best American quilts by a panel of judges appointed by the International Quilt Festival.
Creator: Craig, Josephine Hunter
Date: 1933
Item Number: 209281
Call Number: 1997.66.1
KSHS Identifier: 1997.66.1
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Decorative arts - Quilting
Date - 1930s - 1933
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Quilting
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Hobbies - Quilting
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Bedding - Quilt
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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