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The International Quilt Study Center. (Museum Accessions).(Robert and Ardis James donate quilts)(Brief Article)
The International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a pair of guardian angels in the collectors Robert and Ardis James. Not only did they donate more than 900 quilts and an endowment to establish the center, but they have since donated some 250 additional examples, including, recently, the Sara Miller collection of Amish crib quilts, along with funds for acquiring other quilts and for establishing a professorship at the university as a part of its graduate program in textile history. Among their most extraordinary donations is the so-called Reconciliation quilt shown above. It was made by Lucinda Ward Honstain of Brooklyn, New York, in 1867, soon after the end of the Civil War, and its iconography reflects her hopes that a stronger nation would evolve from that conflict.
Born in Ossining, New York, Lucinda Ward moved to lower Manhattan with her parents when she was about five years old and later to Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Her father, Thomas, ...
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