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Pictorial Archive of Decorative Frames & Labels

Carol Belanger Grafton, 1982

745.6 P52 1982 Library
Victorian Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts

Dan X. Solo, 1976

745.6 S64 1976 Library
The Art of Decorative Stenciling

Adele Bishop and Cile Lord, 1976

745.7 B58 1976 Library
Victorian Stencils For Design and Decoration

Edmund V. Gillon Jr., 1968

745.7 G54 1968 Library
Technical Conservation Center Notes Number 1-15

Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1979

746 B63 1979 Library
Quilts of the Oregon Trail

Mary Bywater Cross, 2007, quilts, textiles, women's history

746 C95 2007 Library
Treasures in the Trunk: Memories, dreams, and Accomplishments of the Pioneer Women who traveled the Oregon Trail

Mary Bywater Cross, 1993, quilts, textile, women's history

746 C95 1993 Library
A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework

Susan Burrows Swan, 1976

746 S93 1976 Library
Famous Colored Hoopsters Visit City Wednesday

Central Point American clipping 14 Feb 1946 World famous Jesse Owens and his Kansas City All-Star colored basketball team were the guests of the…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
The Making of a Railroad Centennial Quilt

Sue A. Waldron, 1986, textile production

746 W2 Library
Racial Problems Are Discussed by Jackson County PTA Council

Central Point American newspaper clipping 21 Sep 1944 p. 1  need for labor and education about racial tolerance...applied to the Japanese as…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework

Gertrude Whiting, 1971

746 W45 1971 Library
David John et al Swackhanner Ex Cannibal

Central Point Hearald 27 Jul 1911 [A black man] Deavid John Henry Allen Zamboss Swackhanner Jr. ... reformed cannibal from Hayti.... claimed to be…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
Negro Porter Attempts Assault

Central Point Herald clipping 21 Jul 1910 p. 1 13 year old Josephine Moss selected as his victim.... "The coon was almost in the state of collapse…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopaedia of Artistic, Plain and Fancy Needlework

Sophia Frances Annie Caulfield and Blanche C. Saward, 1972

746.03 C39 1972 Library
Free Fight

Democratic Times 28 Mar 1874  p. 3 A fight between a white, Negro and Indian ... Albert Johnson and a white creature, named Barnhart had a…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
A History of Dyed Textiles

Stuart Robinson, 1969, Dyes, Fibres, painted, bark, batik, starch resist, discharge, tie-dye

746.39 R62 1969 Library
The Ladies Guide to Needle Work

S. Annie Frost, 1986

746.4 F93 1986 Library
the Winter Fights Have Commenced

Democratic Times 16 Dec 1871 p. 3 clipping ... Indian Billy and semi-bleached Alfred Johnson [likely Albert Johnston] whipping the Indian

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
American Needlework: The History of Decorative Stitchery and Embroidery from the 16th to the 20th Century

Georgiana Brown Harbeson, 1938

746.4 H37 1938 Library
War on Kanaka Flat

Democratic Times 18 Sep 1874 clipping about Negro woodchopper, Jackson, shot and killed by Geo. Ephraim

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
A D Griffin- Republican

Democratic Times 7 Feb 1898 p. 3 Local Notes A D Friffin, "who is not colored, but born that way," is scheduled to make some Republican speeches…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
A Gruesome Discovery

Democratic Times newspaper clipping 7 Aug 1902 p. 1    mentions a suicide on Poorman's Creek on the Beck place - the body of Henry a…

Blacks in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
Victorian Crochet by Weldon and Company

Weldon and Company, 1974, textiles, clothes

746.43 V52 1974 Library
Encyclopedia of Applique: An Illustrated, Numerical Index to Traditional and Modern Patterns

Barbara Brackman, 1993

746.44 B79 1993 Library
Needlework

Adolph S. Cavallo, 1979, textiles, art

746.44 C39 1979 Library
Victorian Fancywork: Nineteenth-Century Needlepoint Patterns and Designs

Lilo Markrich and Heniz Edgar Kiewe, 1974, textiles production

746.44 M37 1974 Library
American Needlework 1776/1976

1975, textiles, rugs, quilt, flag, patterns

746.44 T54 1975 Library
The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art An Oral History

Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Buferd, 1978, textiles, women's history

746.46 C65 1978 Library
Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them

Ruth E. Finley, 1929, textiles, women's history

746.46 F49 1929 Library