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[ 94SR ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin, Pieced Random
Owner: Sharlene Rogers (for Nadia Brookes)  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Elizabeth Mary Smith, 1856 - 1946, was married at 17 and emigrated to Australia with her husband Tom some time later. She had 11 children and one was born either on the ship or shortly after their arrival in Australia. 2 babies died..."

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[ 157LB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Lynnette Brown  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Maude Thompson was widowed at the age of 30, after only 10 years of marriage and was left with five small daughters. At that time there was not a Widow's Pension available. Mrs Thompson and her daughters lived in the house which was..."

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[ 200BM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Rectangle
Owner: Barbara McCabe  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Barbara and her husband David were school teachers, and moved around Victoria, from Echuca to Research to Geelong/Highton. Barbara made a number of quilts in this style during the 1960s and early 1970s as bedcoverings for the..."

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[ 201BM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Square
Owner: Barbara McCabe  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Barbara and her husband David were school teachers, and moved around Victoria, from Echuca to Research to Geelong/Highton. This quilt was known as Michael's quilt. It was superseded within 4 years of having been made. Up until..."

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[ 203WO ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Win Oliver  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "Elizabeth Curnow was born in 1827 and travelled to Australia in 1852, leaving St Ives, in Cornwall, England. She had been married at 18 to William Edward Curnow. When they left England they had 2 little girls, aged 6 and 4. On the..."

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[ 210NGV ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: National Gallery of Victoria  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Pearl Cooke assisted her grandmother making quilts. She helped mark the quilting pattern with a piece of wood, and executed some of the quilting stitches. Work was carried out on an enclosed veranda of Isabella Cooke's house, using a..."

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[ 387VM ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna, Exotic Animals
Owner: Valda Mentjox  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Sam Gibbs (born 1886) was a wild dog trapper in South Australia. Doggers were paid for catching dingoes and dogs and Scorpion Springs, on the S.A. and Victorian border, and Emu Springs were likely bore holes for trapping. Sam..."

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[ 425AW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Alyce Wright  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Alyce Bush, a lone quilter, would spend many hours alone on her front porch as her husband was a security night watchman and slept during part of the day. Quilts were the main form of bed covering used in the family. When I went..."

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[ 426AW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Alyce Wright  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Alyce Bush, a lone quilter, would spend many hours alone on her front porch as her husband was a security night watchman and slept during part of the day. Quilts were the main form of bed covering used in the family. When I went..."

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[ 472FN ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin, Pieced Random
Owner: Flora Noyce  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "The family knew the quilt was on the bed every Sunday when Mary-Anne and William lived at Glen Logie. "The youngest of Mary-Anne's children rescued this quilt from the 'Red Cross rag bag' about 1950 when an older sister was..."

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