Black Belt to Hill Country: Alabama Quilts from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection.
Birmingham Museum of Art, 1982. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 92 pp. 12 color, 60 bw plates. VG-, ex art library with marks. Item #101841
Annotated catalogue of 44 quilts ranging from the 1840s to the 1960s, but primarily from the nineteenth century. Introduction by Robert T. Cargo; "In the Words of Women: Daily Lives of Southern Women" by Gail . Andrews; "Quilting Women" (on the Freedom Quilting Bee Cooperative founded in 1967 composed of African-American women) by Janet Strain McDonald; "Conversations in Gees Bend, Alabama" (interviews with two African- American quilters recorded in 1981 by Katherine Tucker Windham; bibliography. A substantial catalogue for it's size.
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