Checkerboard
Maker unknown
Provenance unknown
ca 1876
74" x 75"
Cotton with cotton filling
6638.2
Photo by KEVA, all rights reserved by the MSU Museum

Dated cotton "Centennial" prints with patriotic symbols place the date of this quilt after 1876.

By Beth Donaldson, excerpted from Quilts from the Albert and Merry Silber Collection