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[ 400IG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Irene Garran  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Agnes McEwan Brown Maxwell - 1876-1970 Born in the port town of Helensborough Scotland which is not far from Glasgow and Loch Lomond. Died in Sydney At the age of 94. Came to Australia from Vancouver, Canada in 1935. ..."

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[ 401AH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Anne Howard  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Agnes McEwan Brown Maxwell - 1876-1970 Born in the port town of Helensborough Scotland which is not far from Glasgow and Loch Lomond. Died in Sydney At the age of 94. Came to Australia from Vancouver, Canada in 1935. ..."

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[ 582HIS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian
Owner: Illawarra Historical Society Inc  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Ethel Urwin Roberts 1887 - 1965 Ethel Urwin Smith was born in Bulli NSW in August 1887 and her father, John Urwin Smith' had been killed in the Bulli mine disaster in March the same year. This explosion killed 81 men and..."

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