Title

Blue and Yellow Embroidered Bedspread: Bedspread

Creation Date

1918

Count

1

Description

A pale yellow cotton bedspread with a blue cotton border featuring sixteen embroidered squares.  Each square is outlined in a diagonal/zigzag blue line with a stitched floral design at the corners and features an image embroidered in yellow as well as embroidered initials.  In one central square are the initials “R C S" surrounded by the names of sixteen students (Archie Mattson, Fredolph Peterson, Mauritz Hawkins, William von Seht, Raymond Bloomquist, Algot Hawkinson, Melvin Carlson, Leonard Hawkinson, Theodore Peterson, Helmor Olson, Russel Nelson, Carl Swenson, Charley Monson, and Vincent Malmquist).  Below this square is an embroidered image of the (Goose Lake) school building and “1918”.   Original Gammelgarden artifact number H-0034-81.