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Photo, Print, Drawing Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow

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Title

  • Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow

Names

  • Miller, Sadie (Depicted)
  • Brown, Mabel Miller (Depicted)
  • Bonds, Jenny Miller (Depicted)
  • Jarrell, Nancy Miller (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • September 26, 1995

Headings

  • -  Quilting
  • -  Fall
  • -  September
  • -  Community events
  • -  Brown Hollow (W. Va.)
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Drews Creek
  • -  West Virginia -- Brown Hollow

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Each Tuesday morning from September through May, a number of women on Drews Creek get together to quilt. Sometimes they quilt at the Ramp House, a community center at the head of Drews Creek across from the Delbert Free Will Baptist Church, to which most of the women belong. Many of the tops are pieced by the women on request, and they produce a number of quilts each year for sale at the annual Pine Knob Ramp Supper. As they quilt, the women catch up on news of the community, which often includes information about what's coming up in the gardens and in the woods.
  • -  Event: Quilting Bee.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C005-01

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Online Format

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Miller, Sadie, Mabel Miller Brown, Jenny Miller Bonds, Nancy Miller Jarrell, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow. Drews Creek Raleigh County Brown Hollow West Virginia, 1995. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000051/.

APA citation style:

Miller, S., Brown, M. M., Bonds, J. M., Jarrell, N. M. & Eiler, L. S. (1995) Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow. Drews Creek Raleigh County Brown Hollow West Virginia, 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000051/.

MLA citation style:

Miller, Sadie, et al. Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000051/>.