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Shelburne Museum. (Museum Accessions).(Brief Article)
The strong folk art holdings of the Shelburne Museum, in Shelburne, Vermont, have also been enhanced recently by the addition of a spectacular quilt (illustrated at right). Like the Reconciliation quilt discussed above, it was made in the aftermath of the Civil War and appears to express the same optimism for a strong nation of racial harmony. The exact significance of the individual narrative blocks has not been determined, but they ...
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