Sophia Ruth Peckham Reid
“Mathematical Star” Quilt
c.1872
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Sophia Ruth Peckham Reid
“Mathematical Star” Quilt
c.1872
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 89 1/2 x 91 in. (227.3 x 231.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Helen E. Van Doren, College Park, Maryland
Object Number
2015.330
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, ex. coll. Helen Van Doren; by inheritance from family of Frances Reid Van Doren, by inheritance from Sophia Jane Reid, by inheritance from Sophia Ruth Reid.
"Maryland Quilts 1634-1934: A Stitch in Time," Timonium State Fair Grounds, Timonium, Maryland, September 8-9, 1990. Sponsored by Maryland Extension Homemakers Council Inc.
Allen, Gloria Seaman and Tuckhorn, Nancy Gibson, A Maryland Album: Quiltmaking Traditions 1634-1934, Nashville, Tennessee: Ruitledge Hill Press, 1995, pp. 168-169, illust.
Van Doren, Helen, M-NCPPC [Maryland-National Captial Parks and Planning Commission Retirees Association, [newsletter?]. May 2016, p. 6, illus.
Inscribed: Printed in green ink on a piece of white cotton pinned to a green sheet to which the quilt is basted: "Maryland Quilts/1634-1934/ A Stitch in Time [italics]/ Maryland Extension Homemakers Council, Inc./ September 9 and 10, 1990/ Timonium, Maryland." Printed by hand in black ink on paper pinned with a safety pin (removed by curator to object file): "MO-077" Printed by hand in black ink on twill tape sewn to green sheet: "PROPERTY OF: H.E. VAN DOREN, 2118 DEXTER AVE, #103, SILVERSPRING, MD 20902"
