Object Details
- Endlich, Wilhelmina
- Description
- Wilhelmina Dollinger Endlich, crafted this quilt for her daughter, Evelyn, when Evelyn was about ten years old. Wilhelmina appliqued and embroidered the eight hoop-skirted, sunbonnet-wearing and parasol-carrying figures. Different print and color-schemes were used for each figure. Variations of this design were popular throughout the 20th century. The blocks are separated by 2 1/4-inch sashing. The quilt was sent out to be quilted.
- Wilhelmina Dollinger was born in Philadelphia in 1904 and married in 1922. She became a registered nurse after she married, graduating in 1928 from the Roxborough Memorial Hospital. During World War II she worked for the signal corps as a nurse with a later career was as an industrial nurse. She died March 12, 1964.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Evelyn Endlich
- 1940-1947
- ID Number
- 1985.0771.02
- catalog number
- 1985.0771.02
- accession number
- 1985.0771
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 90 in x 57 in; 229 cm x 145 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556202
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-caba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
