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Hardcover She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt Book

ISBN: 0807573221

ISBN13: 9780807573228

She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt

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At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond--to space.

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical...

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