Signature quilt, Bear's Paw or Goose Tracks pattern, made of pieced and appliqued solid red and white cottons. Bear's Paw blocks are 9.5-10", made of 9 squares. The four corner white squares each have 2 red triangles & a square appliqued onto white to created pattern. Each center patch has a hand-penned signature.
Upper left block reads: "THE PROPERTY of Elizabeth Mann of Manor Township County of LANCASTER PA 1852." Remaining 35 blocks bear signatures of relatives and friends from Lancaster, York and Union Counties. Design blocks separated by 4" wide pieced white sashing; several horizontal sashes misaligned. Red binding stitched to front, wrapped and stitched to back. Backing is the same white cotton.
Hand quilted in white. Design blocks have lattice except for parallel lined in signature patch. Vertical sashing has vine with large flowers and large round berries? on vine. Horizontal sashing has large flower flanked by two long leaves and a line of rings within.
Made by family and friends of Elizabeth B. Mann (1832-1906) before her 1854 marriage to Eli C. Shuman (1830-1916), son of Jacob and Fanny Shuman of Washington Boro. See NOTES
Provenance
Quilt passed from maker to daughter Ida Shuman Willis to daughter Miriam K. Willis (single) who, at age 85, sold the quilt to Michael Rizzuto, an appraiser in York Springs, Pa. He then sold to Heritage Center.
Top has a sprinkling of various small stains and light soil. Back has increased soil, many small stains with some very dark.
Structurally very good condition.
Object ID
P.88.13.1
Notes
Elizabeth and Eli moved in 1860 to a 200-acre farm called "Bunker Hill Farm" in the Good Hope area of Cumberland Co. They raised 10 children and were then buried at Hope United Methodist Church on the Carlisle Pike.
See file for listing of signature names, places and relationships.
Place of Origin
Manor Twp.
Credit
Generosity of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection
Jacquard coverlet. Cotton warp, dyed blue weft. Dyed wools are two tones of blue and two tones of red. Center seam. Head binding, madder brown print cotton. Center field- fronds in pinwheel cofiguration. Outer border- 2 alternating 2-storied bldgs. with windows. Corner blocks have
"Made by J. Witmer Manor Township for Catherine Sauder 1850"
Yeates School Alumni Reunion at Slaymaker Lodge, June 23, 1951. All persons are identified in a list attached to the back of each photo. Front row, left to right: Jack Locher, William Barton Bard, John H. Girvin, Walter McGovern, J. M. Brenneman, Kirk Galbraith, W. J. L. Walker, Frank Reynolds, Clyde Shissler, Lyman Windolph, Samuel Herman, A. J. Kline, Ephraim Shue, S. C. Slaymaker. Second row, left to right: Clarence Wohlsen, Jess Butz, Dudley Brown, Howard Herr, William Drachbar, Owen Bricker, Charles Snyder, Frank Everts, William Gardiner, H. P. Smith Sr., Paul Sutton, Paul Denckla, Willing Foulke, Edwin Roland, William Heitshu. Third row, left to right: Robert Hartman, John Bausman Jr., Henry Hopkins, John Pfister, Reynolds Hopkins, Donald Brown, Max Kramer, John Woods, John R. C. Boyer, Alfred Burt, Henry H. Nolt III. Fourth row, left to right: William Klein, James Locher Jr., Lester Kurtz, Herbert Leman, John Hartman, Morton Rosse, William Brown, Holmes Carson, Charles Perot, Nevin Schroeder, Edwin Scovel, Thomas J. Brown Jr. Back row, left to right: Truxton Brodhead, Robert Smith, Arthur Herman, Andrew Rote, Robert Locher, Frank Gunzenhauser, Jan Claxton, John Watson and Leon Herman.
