Virtual ExhibitsTitle:
QUILT
Date:
ca. 1920-1929
Source:
Gift of Marcia Vollmer
Object ID:
1983.40.02 a-b
Description:
Montana was already suffering economic hard times years before the stock market crashed in 1929. By 1920 Montana's agricultural boom was over. Crippling drought, coupled with the conclusion of World War I, ended the demand for wheat in Europe as well as the federal price controls that had kept wheat prices high.
In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal in an effort to provide releif. Montanans benefited from New Deal projects, including the twenty-three sewing rooms sponsored by the Works Progress Administartion. Women in these rooms - five of which were on Indian reservations - created garments and household handicrafts for people on relief.
Mary Dean Flaherty made this brightly colored pansy basket quilt. Her parents worked at the Montana State School for the Deaf and Blind in Boulder and she became fluent in sign language. She later worked as clerk and recorder in Boulder.
In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal in an effort to provide releif. Montanans benefited from New Deal projects, including the twenty-three sewing rooms sponsored by the Works Progress Administartion. Women in these rooms - five of which were on Indian reservations - created garments and household handicrafts for people on relief.
Mary Dean Flaherty made this brightly colored pansy basket quilt. Her parents worked at the Montana State School for the Deaf and Blind in Boulder and she became fluent in sign language. She later worked as clerk and recorder in Boulder.
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Pansy Motif, 1983.40.02
Pansy Motif (detail), 1983.40.02
Pansy Motif, 1983.40.02
Pansy Motif (detail), 1983.40.02
