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Your search for the category 'EARNING CASH INCOME - WOMEN > Selling Farm Produce' produced the following results:


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[ 319TM ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Tom Morgan  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The rug has been in constant use by Ben (my son) & also his siblings. The missing lining can probably be explained by a moth attack. These skins are in very good order. Toni Wells, the maker of this rug lived in Western..."

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[ 386CW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Colleen Whitaker  -  Country/Place Created: SHIPBOARD Ireland -  Date: pre 1850
Story of Quilt: "The family suggest that the reason the quilt was not finished (backed) may have related to the time available on the ship. If the quilt wasn't finished on arrival there wasn't time in the 'new country'. "This (the quilt) is..."

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[ 648NG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Norma Gilchrist  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Sylvia Schliebs (1898-1995) and her daughter Norma sewed this quilt in the wintertime after tea at night. They lived on a mixed farm, 'Spring Valley', and Sylvia's life was like that of many farmers' wives with farm jobs to do..."

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[ 651TRM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: The Temora Rural Museum  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Sylvia Schleibs was a typical farmer's wife with many interests and commitments including milking the cows and tending a large flock of chooks. She sold butter and eggs and violets, sewed, was a good cook and was practical and..."

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