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Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist
- Title
- Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist / by Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
- Author
- Herkert, Barbara
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 16-523 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- "Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using each square to illustrate Bible stories and local legends. She exhibited her quilts at local cotton fairs, and though she never traveled outside of Georgia, her quilts are now priceless examples of African American folk art."--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Audience (note)
- Ages 5-8.
- Call Number
- Sc F 16-523
- ISBN
- 9780385754620
- 0385754620
- 9780385754637
- 0385754639
- LCCN
- 2013037480
- OCLC
- 922879351
- Author
- Herkert, Barbara, author.
- Title
- Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist / by Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Audience
- Ages 5-8.
- Added Author
- Schomburg Children's Collection.Brantley-Newton, Vanessa, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 16-523