The museum will display nine silk quilts from the national collection along with related needlework artifacts dating from the late 19th into the early 20th centuries in a new exhibition.
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This Day In History
July 21, 1861
The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, is fought, ending in Confederate victory. This print from the Archives Center is from about 1900.
