Dress

Mary Stevens Kellet

About 1850

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Square hand and machine-sewn cotton quilt in a variation of the Pomegranate pattern, the ground a cream-colored cotton with a design of regular clusters of four pomegranate motifs in red and orange sprouting from green vines that are interconnected to form an overall grid pattern, edged with an orange band, the reverse a plain cream-colored cotton.
Lattice Windows(?) quilt, signed and dated, red lining
Red and blue stars quilt.
Colorful quilt in the "Everybody" or "Sampler" pattern comprised of a semi-grid of quilt blocks in a variety of traditional patterns, mostly geometric and with a central star made of pastel-colored fabrics, in one corner a block with a mule and in another a large blue and yellow star, the lining plain white and made from textiles from St. Joseph’s Hospital.