First Frontier Quilt Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee, Tennessee 200 Project, 1995-1996

Title: First Frontier Quilt Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee, Tennessee 200 Project, 1995-1996

Collection Number: Kingsport Community Manuscript Collection (KCMC) 328

Physical Description: 1 folder, 1 framed quilt

Creator: First Frontier Quilt Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee

Repository: Archives of the City of Kingsport

 

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION:

 

Provenance: The collection was donated by Bea Isbel on behalf of the First Frontier Quilt Guild in September 2006.

Access/Restrictions: There are no restrictions on use of this collection for research purposes. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Processed by: Brianne Johnson processed the collection and developed the finding aid in March 2008.

 

COLLECTION CITATION:

This collection should be cited as:

 

First Frontier Quilt Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee, Tennessee 200 Project, 1995-1996. KC Manuscript Collection 328, Archives of the City of Kingsport, Tennessee.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE

In late 1993, a group of local women made plans to establish the First Frontier Quilt Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee. The First Frontier Quilt Guild is an educational and charitable organization that serves to preserve and promote the art of quilt making as well as educate the non-quilting public.

 

The guild’s first public project was to design and piece a quilt for Kingsport’s Tennessee 200 Project. The quilt currently hangs in the Kingsport Public Library on permanent display.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection consists of one framed quilt on permanent display at the Kingsport Public Library. The collection also contains one folder of materials that details the designing and construction of the “Tennessee 200” quilt. Included is a detailed listing of who worked on the quilt and information on individual blocks within the quilt.

 

SUBJECTS

First Frontier Quilting Guild of Kingsport, Tennessee

Organizations—Kingsport, Tennessee

Quilting

Quilting—Tennessee— Patterns

Tennessee—Bicentennial celebrations

Tennessee—History