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Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims ... Mrs. Stagg helps her husband in the field with plowing planting, weeding corn and harv

from The Library of Congress

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  • Donovan Beeson said:
    www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.
  • perfgeek said:
    Back before Alask and Hawaii were States.
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)
  • Rachel @ 2nd Avenue Studio said:
    "helps her husband" do you mean ... works along side her husband in the field, does all the house work and child care alone and still finds time to hand stitch 48 hand embroidered blocks together? astounding! and still we don't know her name, just the name of her husband.
  • Barb said:
    how mad do you think she was when they added Hawaii and Alaska?

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt which she made, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Donovan Beeson said:
    www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.
  • mak1173 said:
    Quilt of State birds?
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)
  • Genevieve Netz said:
    She probably bought the blocks with the designs already stamped on them. Such kits were popular, even through the 1960s. I have a State Flowers quilt my grandmother made from a kit.
  • jollywinegums said:
    Nice bed quilt. I like the way the green and red sashing meets in a chequered arrangement between each block. Clearly not this lady's first quilt. Pity the sunlight is so bright that it obscures the detail of the bird blocks. Wonder if her family still has it?'Tis very possible.

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Donovan Beeson said:
    www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.
  • Rosa Pomar said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Quilts, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
  • Joyce in the CactusPatch said:
    Wonderful shot, I am a native New Mexican and this is great to see. I can relate to how still one had to stand to get a shot back then, while looking into our bright sunshine with no shades.
  • Beth Wales said:
    After her work on the farm was done, she then had to do her chores in the house and get the children ready for bed.Quilts like these were usually made in the few remaining hours before bedtime and on a sunday(day of rest?). So this probably took a couple of years to complete.(speaking as a quiltmaker who also has to fit sewing into a busy day).If she had a machine, it may have taken less,but it's quite an accomplishment -and she's obviously very proud of it.