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A stitch in time: local women replicate coded quilts from Underground Railroad

Publication
Wilmette Life, 29 Apr 2004, Home & Design, A1, A8
Description
Media Type
Newspaper
Item Types
Articles
Photographs
Notes
Business begun as a fund raiser for an AIDS clinic in Nairobi, features miniature quilts with a "code" used by slaves escaping along the Underground Railroad through Illinois.

Photos
Date of Publication
29 Apr 2004
Personal Name(s)
Carlson, Elizabeth ; Collins, Elizabeth
Corporate Name(s)
Two Elizabeths
Local identifier
Wilmette.News.269261
Language of Item
English
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