Gallery 3:
Baltimore Album Quilt, c. 1847

        Plain and printed cotton, chintz, inking, silk embroidery. Courtesy
        of the United Methodist Historical Society, Lovely Lane
         Museum, Baltimore.

This quilt tells the story of a Methodist minister's work at Seamen's Bethel Mission depicted in square C-3 (the building shown near the center of the quilt). The Methodist Reverend Hezekiah Best served as the Mission's chaplain from 1844- 47 during which he dedicated a new church, began a Seaman's Home and established a training school for boys aboard the ship Hope. The quilters included the ship in the top right block. ( F-2). The quilt was dedicated to Reverend Best when he left the mission.

      
   

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