"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
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The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
$150.00
SKU: FS003
Nancy E. Davis. 2000
Catalog of the 2001exhibit at MdHS and in Japan, traces the development of the colorful, Maryland-made Baltimore Album quilt from its origins to the later 1850s pieced star quilts. Magnificently designed and illustrated, the book captures in 160 full-color photographs the extraordinarily complicated and intricate work performed by Maryland women in the first half of the nineteenth century and places their wonderful art in historical context. Extremely hard to find! Softbound,132 pages.
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
