Presentation, Album, and Special Occasion Quilts

Many outstanding quilts from the mid-19th century marked a special occasion. Some were composed of squares resembling the pages of a sketchbook, scrapbook, or family album; others were signed like the pages of an autograph album.

Silk brides' quilt. Mary Jane Moran, Baltimore, Md. 1845.

Grooms' album quilt made for Benoni Pearce, Pawling, N.Y. Dated 1850.

Album quilt made by a church congregation for the ministers' wife, Mary Hill. Maltaville, N.Y. Dated 1847.

Album quilt made by a church congregation for a departing minister, Rev. Bernard Nadal, Baltimore, Md. Dated 1847.

Family album quilt. Susan Rogers, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dated 1867.

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