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Image credit: "Trade and Commerce" Quilt Top Hannah Stockton Stiles (b. 1800), ca. 1835.Possibly Delaware River Valley. Cotton, cotton chintz. 105 x 89 in. Gift of Hannah Lee Stokes. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York Dr. Jacqueline M. Atkins is the Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Consulting Curator of Textiles at the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA. She has extensive experience working with diverse quilting communities here and abroad in researching quilt history, traditions, techniques, and design. She served as guest curator to the Fenimore Art Museum for its 2004 exhibition of permanent collection quilts at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival in Tokyo, Japan. She has carried out research on quilts in the NYSHA collection for several publications as well. Dr. Atkins most recent book, Quilting Transformed: A History of Contemporary Quilting in America, examines the themes of this project. About Fenimore Art Museum The Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake -- James FenimoreCooper's "Glimmerglass Lake" -- in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including: folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; an extensive collection of domestic artifacts; more than 125,000 historical photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region's unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprising more than 800 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Founded in 1945, the Fenimore Art Museum is NYSHA's showcase museum. http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/ Contact: Todd Kenyon, Public Relations New York State Historical Association Fenimore Art Museum/The Farmers' Museum Phone: (607) 547-1472 / E-mail: t.kenyon@nysha.org