Quilt, “Blocks with Briar Stitching” pattern

Wimbreth

About 1910-1920

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Picture or story quilt handcrafted of multi-colored cotton and cotton blend fabrics in shades of red, green and blue, made in commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement, in a grid pattern of nine blocks beginning in the upper left corner with block 5) Bus Boycott--Rosa Parks; upper middle block 6) [illegible] Baptist Church (appears to be an image of Bethel Baptist Church); upper right block 8) Kennedy Saga; middle left block 1) 16th Street Baptist Church; middle block 3) Extra Milers; middle right block 2) Freedom Riders; lower left block 7) Edmund Pettus Bridge; lower middle block 4) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; lower right block 9) Directory.
Strip quilt with polyester double-knit fabric.
Cotton quilt in the Tulips pattern, composed of a grid of twelve squares bordered in green within each square on a cream-colored ground a design of four reddish-brown tulips with green leaves in an X pattern.
Tiffany Studios water lily lamp (model 385) with a gilt-bronze leafy base from which extend upward seven curved stems that hold seven delicate, iridescent, favrile glass shades (four are original, three are replacements).