Thadine Wormly's Story Quilt Square 1
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Thadine Wormly
Date: August 24 2018; 2018-08-24
Material: Digital image Dimension:
300 ppi
Creator: Thadine Wormly
Identifier: aql:29314 flushing-quilting-2018-Thadine-Underground-Railroad flushing-quilting-2018-Thadine-Underground-Railroad.tif
Description: Thadine Wormly's Story Quilt Square depicts the ways in which quilts were used by slaves to pass along secret codes. The visual codes sewn into the quilts prepared slaves to escape.
Creator :
Thadine Wormly
Date :
August 24 2018; 2018-08-24
Summary/Description :
Thadine Wormly's Story Quilt Square depicts the ways in which quilts were used by slaves to pass along secret codes. The visual codes sewn into the quilts prepared slaves to escape.
Subject :
Families; Quilting
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Flushing Library, Flushing, Queens, NY United States
Type :
Digital image
Format :
Digital image; 300 ppi
Identifier :
aql:29314 flushing-quilting-2018-Thadine-Underground-Railroad flushing-quilting-2018-Thadine-Underground-Railroad.tif
Subject:
Families; Quilting
Families; Quilting
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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