Quilt

Name/Title

Quilt

Entry/Object ID

821

Description

Girl Scout Badge Signature Quilt. Material: textile. Size: 69" W. x 87 3/4" L. /1Description: green cotton top "Signature" quilt with eighty-four Girl Scout badges embroidered onto green top and a name embroidered below each badge; gold seam binding edging, green backing with filler batts; MN Quilt #WS064. Embroidered names include: Hazel Miller, Jeanne Eisert, Bernice Spittler, Teckla Sommerstad Olsen, Kay Johnson, Vashti Schlicht, Wanda Lux, Margaret Habein, Beatrice Webb Mitchell, Harriet McMartin, Wilma Froelich Mittelstaedt, Mary West, Jeanne Engel, Merle Miller, Ione Hilberg, Virginia Mellinger DeBoer, Margaret Wynnemer Robinson, Dorothy Wynnemer, Jane Kelly Bina, Lois Johnson, Irene Kugath Lee, Marion Meyers Melin, Myra Mae Sommerstad, Ruth Draheim Iversen, Marian Bilben Hegerty, Joan Groebner, Dorothy Dahle, Jean Rykhus, Audrey & Nita Tyrholm, Lois Meyers, Inez Hofmeister Marsh, Ruth Lovold, Marian Holbrook, Marquerite Lehmann Pogue, Miriam Pickett Bond, Violet Papke, Lucille Van Loh Knowles, Freda Gerdts Carlson, Jan Watson Stewart, Joan Connors, Tammy Wynnemer, M.I. Davidson, Hazel Johnson, Constance Everett, Eleanor Breed Cronkright, Lois Prechel, Viola Barry, Edna Domian, Mildred Cahill, Ruth Frentz, Cecily Spaulding, Laura Spaulding, Anna Kelly, Bonnie Dahle, Betty Jane Kearns, Melissa West, Ellen Oppedahl Pfalzgraff, Cella Baughman, Ruth Fowler, Rachel Fowler, Marion Frentz, Effie Froehlich, Evelyn Nelson, Mildred Schafer, Gretchen Draheim Dunn, Esther Iversen, Anna Kelly, Eleanor Dunn Olson, Florence Kugath,Harriet Anerson Gartner, Harriet Mellinger, Norine Breck, Marcella Bartelt Spaugh, Ethelyn Engebretson, Julia Thiewes,, Ruth Brisbane Van Nocker, Florence Draheim, Ruth Tyrholm, Constance McCrady, Helen McCleery Breed, Barbara McCarthy, Anita Van Loh Joane, Myrtle Hollingsworth, Audrey Neidt, Sallie Conway, Marion Torkelson Barnell,, Peg Hodgson Horner, Dorothy Turtness, Mildred Lortis Maguire. Elsie Frentz, Deloris Lux, Margaret Senske Kiesler, Mildred Wynnemer, Betty Eisert, Beulah Eisert, Jeanne Eisert.

Context

Note with quilt reads "Made by the Girl Scouts for M. Isabelle Davidson, who was co-founder of the Girl Scouts in Waseca about 1920. Presented 18 May 1941, by Girl Scouts. M. Davidson was former Waseca High School teacher." See accession form for more information regarding each match and the quilter.

Cataloged By

Legacy Photo Import

Made/Created

Date made

1941

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Quilt

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Needlework

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

September 16, 1999

Update Date

October 16, 2026