Baltimoresignature album quilt top, 1844-45, 107 x 105 1/2 in. ( x cm), Cotton; pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, and inscribed, United States, 19th century, Thirty-six women made this quilt top, each contributing a unique square, which she signed. Signature album quilts were a collective form of remembrance—a record of the names, kind sentiments, and sewing skills of a group of friends. Such quilts became popular in the 1840s, a period of national expansion when many people, moving westward, desired a material reminder of the communities they left behind

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