Collection Items
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Audio Recording"Tacking's the only way we fixed quilts at home."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"A lot of times I'd tack the crazy quilts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I didn't like the tacking, so I wanted to learn the quilting."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"You've got to have a true pattern to start with."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I don't usually start until after Christmas."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"In 1976, I decided to make a wall hanging."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I got to using different thread to quilt with."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I think as much of the Double Wedding Ring as any."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I make just as little a binding as I can make it."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"You can make the squares big as you want."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"This craft business, they want you to create your own."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I made a lot of pillows from a Tulip pattern."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"I draw my patterns from magazines."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"It takes a lot of room for a quilting frame."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"Group quilting is real good if you could get enough interest...
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"It takes a lot of time. You've got to want to do it."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-27
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Audio Recording"She'd mark her quilts with a piece of chalk."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"She liked to do different patterns."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"My mother would give us little tiny pieces."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"Now these quilts have good linings."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"She used to piece what you'd call a crazy quilt."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"We would all get around the quilting frames."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"She'd use cotton filler or old blankets."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"She quilted with whatever color thread she had."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I've enjoyed doing the Cathedral Windows."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"If I don't quilt the square, I do the fan."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"We do things the way our mother did."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"In the fall of the year, I use the old-time frames."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I quilted a quilt out in a day."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I give to the family, and I have sold some tops."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"As long as you can coordinate your colors..."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Schockley, Maggie
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I loved quilts even when I was a little girl."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"You can get a quilt together more evenly by hand."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I pieced 'em, but I didn't quilt till after I was married."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I use a circle frame that's on a stand."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"You couldn't possibly do that on the sewing machine."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"They need to be stretched real tight so they come out smooth."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I did the Flower Garden for my granddaughter as a wedding pr...
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I think most of my pattern are old patterns."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I can't quilt a straight line!"
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"To piece with, a soft thread is better."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"It's hard to make tiny stitches."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I've never tacked but one quilt in my life."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"Polyester's easier to quilt through than cotton."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I pieced one Turkey Tracks and appliqued the other."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"It's not that difficult to make, Dresden Plate isn't."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"I've never done much quilting with a group."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"My granddaughter is real interested in crafts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"Always begin in the middle and work to the outside."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"What makes a quilt attractive?"
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-28
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Audio Recording"This was when we quilted on the seam."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-29
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Audio Recording"This quilt I gave to my grandson."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-29
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Audio Recording"I got so tired of that Sunburst quilt, a-quilting it."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Stanley, Lura
- Date: 1978-09-29
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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"I just got tired of that Log Cabin."
- 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 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"I helped my grandmother quilt."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I've done a lot of the crazy quilts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"Back then you had to have a lot of cover."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"Where did you have your quilting frames?"
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"We called it 'secret tacking'."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I called 'em crazy quilts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I fixed them Dutch Girls, Dutch Boys."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I would needlework 'em around."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I done it by hand a long time, but now I usually piece by ma...
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I usually quilt in fans, most of the time."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"Quilting around the way it's pieced."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"I used to always hem them, but they're pretty bound."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"Just quilted for myself and helped the neighbors."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"This quilt is pieced in blocks."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"This is a Little Dutch Girl."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"Three squares each way makes nine blocks, you see."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Audio Recording"We'd make a paste out of flour and water to mark out quilts."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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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"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"She'd make a little flower basket."
- 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"Oh, yes, we called them half moons."
- 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"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"The first one I quilted, I did that in fans."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Audio Recording"Our ancestors didn't do this fancy quilting."
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Todd, Zenna
- Date: 1978-09-25
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Photo, Print, DrawingCrystal Cruise piecing a Flower Garden quilt
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingCrystal Cruise piecing a Flower Garden quilt
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingAppliqued quilt on bed
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingAppliqued quilt, detail
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingAppliqued quilt on bed
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingAppliqued quilt, detail
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingAppliqued quilt, detail
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingApplique dated "Jan. 1978"
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal
- Date: 1978-09-06
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Photo, Print, DrawingNine Patch quilt
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23
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Photo, Print, DrawingNine Patch quilt, detail
- Contributor: Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1978-09-23