Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingPortrait of Mamie and Leonard Bryan
- Contributor: Bryan, Mamie - Eiler, Terry
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMamie Bryan showing her quilts to Gerri Johnson
- Contributor: Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"This is a block quilt."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"These quilts will last."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"Both of these is countypins."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"I just got tired of that Log Cabin."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"This is just out of our old clothes."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"I don't use no patterns."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"I never had time for fooling."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"I think more of that silk quilt than the others."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"I don't guess you ever saw a knotted countypin."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Bryan, Mamie
- Date: 1978-09-10
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Audio Recording"My grandmother was a slave."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I haven't made any quilts in several years."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"We haven't always had this polyester."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"This cotton filler comes in a big roll."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"You ruin quilts when you start washing 'em."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I just keep enough quilts to take care of the beds."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"We use a worn-out quilt to pad that couch."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I've kindly lost my ambition."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"The design they call a fan is more like a half moon."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Now mama pieced on paper sometimes."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"She'd make a little flower basket."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"You've got a quilt without all that piecing."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"About all my quilts was quilted with white thread."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I did all my quilting right here in this living room."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"My mother would have quiltings."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"What makes a quilt pretty?"
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Oh, yes, we called them half moons."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"You hardly ever hear tell of anyone making a quilt."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"You just keep adding on squares."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Grandmother, I want one of your quilts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"My mother learned from white people."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Now I piece on the sewing machine."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I guess I was twenty-five when I started quilting."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"I'll never forget the first quilt I cut out by a pattern."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Experience teaches you better than anything."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"And that was what we called the crazy quilt."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"My mother-in-law made batts out of wool."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"We used cotton feed bags for lining."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"The first one I quilted, I did that in fans."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25