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Blue, white and pink cotton quilt in Broken Star pattern, with close and fine quilting overall. The binding is marked with the initials "M E T" on the back. According to the donor, the quilt belonged to her uncle's parents, Eugene and Annie Elizabeth Carmichael Metzger. They were married in Missouri in 1880 and moved to Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas and then later to Lane, Franklin County, Kansas. The quilt may have been part of Annie Metzger's hope chest.
Date: between 1880 and 1930
Item Number: 220875
KSHS Identifier: 1973.143.21
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Decorative arts - Quilting
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Home and Family - Courtship and marriage
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Quilting
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Hobbies - Quilting
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Bedding - Quilt
Places - Cities and towns - Hunter
Places - Cities and towns - Lane
Places - Counties - Franklin
Places - Counties - Mitchell
Places - Other States - Missouri
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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