Floral applique block quilt of cotton. Sixteen 15" floral applique blocks of flowers on white ground. Flowers have blooms of various greens & browns appliqued together to create two different designs that alternate block by block. Flowers branch out in curves with leaves of black & green print and intricate flower buds.
Sashing, 2.5" wide, separates blocks with white strips edged with thin green strips. Inner border of 1-inch wide brown strip encloses blocks. In large outer border of white with mitered corners are graceful grapevines of grape clusters, leaves of the same green & black print as leaves in centerfield,and tendrils of chain stitch embroidery. Wide red binding w/ mitered corners wraps to back and is hand stitched. White cotton back of four panels. Thin cotton batting.
Hand-quilted with a grid in centerfield except for bold cable that is superimposed on sashing and brown inner border. Outer border has slanting parallel lines. One distinctive round flower 2.5" in diameter with 10 petals is found in outer border near one corner, near edge.
Card originally sewn on quilt (handwritten in ink): "Quilt made by Rebecca Rynard of Line Lexington Penna. 90 yrs ago - it has taken many 1st prizes at the State Fairs in both Montgomery Co & Bucks Co - Penna." Below is "Property of M.D.S. Elwell 524 Cedar Lane Swarthmore(?)"
Provenance
Wheatland record states history of ownership is unknown between maker and donor. Research shows most Rynards lived in Cumberland Co.
Soil and multiple scattered stains overall, esp. on back. Significant holes on front. Wide binding is worn at edge and fraying. Many seams deteriorating and separated.
All cotton quilt, Lone Star pattern composed of pieced diamond prints on a white ground, itself pieced with many sections. Appliqued swags and beefy 8-point stars in outer border. White binding applied and hand-stitched back and front.
REFURBISHED: Lone Star, swags and small stars were later covered with appliqued solid pink cotton, apparently meant to salvage a quilt suffering from deteriorated original prints. Original printed fabrics underneath still visible along many edges of pink overlay. No quilting done on pink overlay.
Provenance
Found in Wheatland's collection with no identification.
Pink applique is a later "repair" covering all areas of original printed fabric used in lone star, swags and small stars. Original pieced prints visible through the pink overlay and are in unknown condition; presumed to be worn. Overall soil and browning from sun and acid burn. One-inch hole near swag; other scattered holes as well.
Object ID
2016.999.1
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
All cotton block quilt has a Bear-claw pattern using a small-scale print of green and black flowers with yellow centers. These 16 large blocks are arranged on point alternating with 1/4-size smaller 9-patch blocks using the same print, also on point. Both pieced blocks worked on a white ground. Wide strips of white pieced rectangles form a sash-like pattern, separating the Bear-claw blocks. At each intersection of the "sashing" is the smaller 9-patch block. Thin batting is clumped.
The 1/4" binding uses the green print wrapped from front to back. Back is a white cotton muslin pieced in 3 panels.
Hand-stitched quilting done with white cotton thread, with some tan. Quilted with grid and straight, parallel lines.
Color and construction all in very good condition. Some soil with scattered light brown stains as well as staining or acid burns along some fold lines. Batting is clumped.
Object ID
1974.008.1
Notes
This same green print is found in "Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide" by Eileen Jahnke Trestain on page 89. The print is described as an "overdyed green".
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
All cotton quilt, on point blocks have pieced 8-point star blocks that alternate with blocks of a woven pattern blue with a grid of white lines. Stars are small scale floral print of pink with tiny white flowers. White ground is a very loose weave composed of multiple pieced panels. White outside border is 11" wide on one end and 7.5" wide on the other three.
Hand-quilted with white thread in a small scale grid aligned with blocks.
Back is a loose weave arranged with wide strips of white alternating with strips of a large, bold red print of branches and large flowers. Six white strips are 8.5 - 9" wide; 5 printed strips and 7.5" wide. Back is brought forward to front to created binding. Thin battiing.
Inscription: On front quilt corner is "HM6? handwritten in ink.
Overall fading and deterioration, especially in pink floral print which is consistently riddled with small holes where white flowers have deteriorated. Some small holes in blue fabric, 1/8"-1/4" big with fraying. General soil, scattered stains and acid burn, especially at fold lines and borders, as well as sections of back..
Rectangular velvet postage stamp quilt with emerald green silk border.
Center field filled with multicolored squares (postage stamps) with a subtle design in center of 2 large diamonds and a smaller diamond overlapping them at center of quilt. Edges of border decorated with lime green zig zag embroidery stitch; corner blocks of border have an embroidered 4-petal floral motif in lime green.
Backing is maroon silk blend with stitching showing through from front along border.
Provenance
Provenance: Passed down in family; believed to have been made by one of donor's great aunts, Elizabeth Miller Thomas or Ida Miller. Ida worked for Judge Appel and lived in Intercourse (see family info in file of sampler G05.11.1). Both these ladies were sisters of donor's paternal grandfather Ray Bair Miller (born circa 1876).
Generally good overall; border is problematic. Border at one end is completely missing except for some loose threads and white linen fabric exposed beneath.
Object ID
G.06.11.01
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Annette W. Miller, Heritage Center Collection
Quilt, Joseph's Coat pattern, made by donor's great grandmother Susannah Lefever Eshleman.
Center field is thin bars using seven colors repeating in the same sequence five times across the width. Colors are purple, black, blue, green, yellow, cheddar, red. Border all four sides is diagonal stripes of the same sequence of colors. Unknown batting. Back is a print of many naturalistic & geometric motifs of teal, pink and cream, all on a ground of navy blue.
Hand-quilted using four motifs: every other bar/stripe has cable which alternates with chevron, zig zag and diaper.
Provenance
Donor's great grandmother Susan L. Eshleman lived on a farm in what is now School Lane Hills. As a girl, she had been raised east of Lancaster (perhaps Fertility) and the Lefevers attended Mellinger Mennonite Church. She then married Hiram/Henry Eshleman and joined his church, Longenecker Reformed Mennonite.
Tulip block quilt of cottons. Blocks are set on point with tulip blocks arranged in 4 columns of 5, alternating with plain white blocks.Tulip design has 3 blooms with 4 petals each. Blooms are a red floral print and stems w/ leaves are a green abstract print.Tulip blocks pieced in 7 patches and stem w/ leaves are applique. White borders are 4.75" wide except for 9.5" bottom. Back is white and wraps edges toward front to form narrow binding. Cotton batting separated.
Cumberland County, likely Shippensburg area
Hand quilted with white thread following still-visible pencil lines. Outer borders have an undulating feather interspersed with an 8-petal flower. The tulip blocks have horizontal parallel lines and the white blocks have a feather wreath. All quilting has double lines.
See Provenance & Notes.
Provenance
Letter of 6/5/1948, in file, from donor's great aunt Nannie (Nancy) Foreman Spangler, states the tulip patches were made by donor's great great great Grandmother Culp, being "at least 150 years old" and that she (Nannie) "had them quilted about sixty years ago" (c.1890?). Trish Herr believes the prints used in the tulip blocks are circa 1840s, confirming the story.
Thus, patches were made by the mother of Mary Culp Atherton (1812-1849), she passed to Mary, then to her daughter Ann Margaret Atherton Foreman (1840-1925) to daughter Nannie Foreman Spangler (1859-1951) who had quilt assembled, to grand niece & donor Margaret Wagner Aungst (1918- 2012).
Generally good with some brown scattered stains and a large stained area at middle of left edge. Apparently rarely washed due to still very visible pencil lines. Many seams in piecing are separating. Backing has acid burn on fold lines and section that was folded and likely touching wood of blanket chest.
Object ID
G.08.03.03
Notes
Nancy Foreman was the maternal aunt of donor's father, Marshall Wagner. Printout of digital photo taken by Trish of the Foreman sisters is in this file. Aunt Nannie Foreman Spangler is positioned at two o'clock. They were raised in Shippensburg where their father James K. Foreman was Sheriff. Nannie married Henry Spangler & lived in Phila. where Henry was a professor at U. of Penn. They had one child, also Henry.
Donor states the Culp gr gr gr grandmother who pieced the quilt patches is unknown at present, altho she believes descent went from a great great great grandmother Culp to an Atherton to the Foreman family. (Correct - wrz). Donor may have records or photos in storage, but unlikely to discover soon. (Deceased 2012)
Place of Origin
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Margaret C. Aungst, Heritage Center Collection
Log cabin quilt made of plain- and twill-weave wools. Quilt top composed of 156 log cabin blocks, 12 across and 13 down. Each block ( 6 1/2" square) is composed of 3/4"-wide logs with a central square of orange-red surrounded by brown and blue strips with the colors separated diagonally. Blocks are arranged in a Barn Raising pattern of concentric diamonds of blue and brown.
Three blue fabrics (2 twill & 1 plain) and two brown fabrics used. Brown twill is used through center areas and darker plain-weave brown in periphery. One corner block strongly varies by substituting a sheer camel brown instead of the darker browns, creating an anomaly. (Donor states this indicates a Quaker quilt).
The 0.25"-wide blue binding uses two wool fabrics, a coarse knit on three sides and a twill on the 4th side. Wool backing is a small-scale geometric print of browns.
Numerous small areas of stain, soil and holes. Some holes are large, e.g. 1.25" x .375", likely moth damage. Some of these holes are in the brown twill w/ lighter, heavier weft destroyed leaving the thin, darker warp threads).
Object ID
G.08.17.03
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Quilt, 9-Patch on Point with sawtooth border, all-cotton quilt (similar to a 1930s Nancy Page pattern called "Spring Has Come"). Hand-pieced and hand-quilted by Eve Spangler in northern Adams Co.
Twenty-five pieced blocks (10 1/2") of 9-Patch pattern, arranged 5 by 5 and set on point. Pieced from various pink, green and red prints (at least 16 different ones) on a ground of off-white muslin. These many prints were typical of the mid-to-late 1800s. Alternating blocks are in green floral print. Inner border is a 2 1'1" wide sawtooth in red print and solid white, outer border is 3" in same black and green print as alternate blocks in centerfield.
Batting is thin cotton. Backing is a cotton floral print on tan ground with overlaid blue stripes. Edge is wrapped with a 1/4" binding, the same red print as in the sawtooth inner border.
Moderate amount of quilting in white thread is parallel lines within pieced blocks and borders. Within green print blocks are tiny indistiguishable quilting stitches that match fabric.
Made in York Springs area, Adams County by Eve Spangler Trimmer (17 August 1825 - 21 November 1887).
Provenance
Donor says maker was her great-great-great grandmother who lived in the York Springs area. Donor says quilt was made for Eve's daughter-in-law Anne Trimmer, for her hope chest. This is incorrect.
Eve Spangler (Aug 17, 1825 - Nov. 21, 1895) and Daniel Trimmer were married on 6 Feb 1844 by Rev. J. Ulrich in Adams Co. They were Pa. German,, Lutherans, farmers and they had a daughter Sarah Anne Eliza Trimmer. The quilt was made by Eve Trimmer for her OWN daughter "Annie", likely before Annie's marriage to Franklin Spangler on 5/28/1871.
Cotton quilt with Bear's Paw pattern in pink and green prints. Twenty-five 9 1/2" blocks, straight set 5x5, with 2 1/2" sashing and 7" border. Blocks are red and white striped print ground, with four green floral print bear "paws" and one small center square also in green print. Sashing and borders are a pink print.
Batting is thin cotton. Backing is solid pink cotton. Binding is backing brought forward, 1/4" wide.
Quilting is diamond grid pattern on the blocks, and parallel lines on sashing and borders.
Made in York Springs area, Adams County by Annie Trimmer Spangler (11 October 1850 - 20 September 1911).
Provenance
Made by donor's great-grandmother, Annie Trimmer Spangler and passed down through son Charles to his daughter Edna Spangler Keefer to daughter and donor Betsy Keefer.
Annie Trimmer married Franklin Spangler (1845-1911) on 5/28/1871 and they had 3 children: two daughters, Hermie and Clennie, and one son Charles. They were likely Lutheran and lived in the York Springs area of Adams County.
Death certificate of Franklin Jacob Spangler records his father as Emanuel Spangler and the maiden name of his mother as "Myers". Baptism of "Jacob Franklin" Spangler notes mother's name was Maria.
