Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2012.36.001
Accession#:
2012.36
Credit Line:
Donated by Marg Parsons.
Object Name:
Tablecloth
Title:
Tablecloth with Signatures
Artist — Creator:
Helen Roberts
Artist — Creator Role:
Artist
Year Range from:
1949
Year Range to:
1950
Description:
White tablecloth with a double boarder. Exterior boarder is a red zig—zag line. Interior boarder is a floral and heart motif embroidered with red, blue, yellow and green thread. Inside the boarders, the table cloth is covered in embroidered signatures. Signatures are embroidered in various shades of green, blue, red, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. There is also a paw print, a illustration of a man's face with a hand in front of the mouth and an illustration of a woman's face with a music note embroidered on the tablecloth. There are ninety two signatures in total.
Notes:
Table cloth with embroidered signatures owned by Helen and Keith Roberts on Douglas Island circa 1949—1950. Signatures obtained at various dinner parties then embroidered by Helen Roberts.
People:
Ail, Eva
Allen, Bertha
Allen, Leonard C.
Brandbury, Alice V.A.
Burg, Amos
Conner, Roger
Connor, Marge Edwina
Cross, Bess
Cross, John M.
Cross, Pat
Cunningham, Joyce
Daub, Walter
Dettinger, Lee G.
Douglas, Ray
Fellows
Fellows, Bob
Foster, Don C.
Foster, Katie Lee
Francis, Joanne
Francis, Ronald L.
Frank, Judy
Fuller, Belle
Geeslin, Jesse
Geeslin, Jud R.
Gruening, Betty
Gruening, Dorothy S
Gruening, Ernest
Gruening, Huntington
Hobbs, Burnie
Hobbs, Mary J.
Howell, Joyce
Jermain, Jerry
Jermain, Rosy
Kehoe, Katherine L.
Logan, Bob
Logan, Marie
Marshall, Adam J.
Marshall, Katty
Matson, Eddie
Matson, George A.
McLean, Isabel
McLean, Joe
Megath, Jossie
Mellquist, Ester
Mellquist, Jaer
Mize, Bess
Mize, Ralph W.
Murphy, Mernice
Murphy, Scott L.
Nerland, Andrew
Nood, Foresta
Oliver, Ethel
Oliver, Simeon
Paden, John E.
Paden. Bess L.
Parker, Priscilla
Parks, George A.
Parsons, Ann R.
Parsons, Bee
Parsons, E.
Parsons, Frank
Parsons, John W.
Peterson, Pearl
Ruotsala, Bert
Ruotsala, Carol
Ruotsala, Elaine
Schurre, Gertrude
Schurre, Jacques
Shafner, Joe
Shafner, Leonar R.
Skuse, Anna
Skuse, Don W.
Starling, Harvey
Starling, Margaret
Stevens, Lucille B.
Stewart, Ben D.
Stewart, Doris
Stewart, Jeannette
Stewart, Mary
Stewart, Tom
Stewart, William T.
Stines, Norman C.
Thorn, Elton
Thorne, Alice Tilton
Thorne, Robert L.
Walsh, Louise
Walsh, M. J.
Wellington, Duke
Worobee, Frances
Zigler, Billy
Parsons, Marg
Search Terms:
Textile
Home Life
Signature
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