Coverlet photograph

Name/Title

Coverlet photograph

Entry/Object ID

CDP 24.3.AW007

Description

Centennial 1876 Jacquard Coverlet. Patented 17 August 1875 and also inscribed “Memorial Hall.” Power woven with full loom width, doubleweave. Cotton with wool weft in red, green and blue. Has a leaf vine and pendant flower borders with memorial hall in the middle; 84 x 81”. Belonged to Eliza Ankeney Spickler Miller (1842-1901), daughter of Matilda Ankeney and David Spickler, who married in 1865 Edmund Greenbury Miller (1832-1885). He was a merchant in Clear Spring, Maryland and they lived on a farm at the northwest corner of St. Paul’s Road and the National Pike (Route 40) about three miles east of Clear Spring. Came down through the family to her granddaughter Mary Louise Miller Hoffman (1907-1987).

Collection

Coverlet Documentation Project, Ankeney-Woods Collection

Acquisition

Notes

Photographed and documented 11/06/24

Made/Created

Date made

1875

Place

City

Philadelphia

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States of America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Border inscription

Location

LL, LR

Transcription

MEMORIAL HALL

Material/Technique

Woven

Type

Border inscription

Location

L, R side borders

Transcription

PATENTED AUGT. 17TH 1875

Material/Technique

Woven

Type

Border inscription

Location

UL, UR

Transcription

CENTENNIAL

Material/Technique

Woven

Dimensions

Width

84 in

Length

81 in

Color

Natural, Red, Green, Blue