Lots of photo's in this post!!!
The George Peabody library is in Baltimore and contains more than 300.000 books mainly from the 1800 and the 1900s. If you want to read something they will get the chosen book for you and you can study the book at a special desk.
Detail from the iron work....always interesting for someone who likes patterns;)
They made an exception for us, my friend arranged that we could go up a few stairs. We were happy!
Beautiful and very impressive building!!!
These were huge!!!
I accidentally took photo's of books about 'The united Netherlands' (my country) , so I asked to take a peek inside.
And we looked at an old book about needlework, full of ideas!
Detail of the library woodwork (at least I think it is wood).
The outside of the Peabody library, all made of marble.
Opposite the library there was a beautiful church. Baltimore has lots of churches. My friend told me, freedom of faith was one of the main reasons people emigrated to the USA. Baltimore is one of the early settlements of the USA, so lots of history here.
Me ;) in front of the church.
This church window is inspiring isn't it?! I love it!
We also visited the
Maryland historical museum
Of course the highlight from this visit, for me, were the quilts on display. Most of them were from around 1850.
Broderie persé, very beautiful.
A few very impressive and wonderful crazy quilts.
Braided and embroidered ribbons.
Next to the quilt this was written:
'This crazy
quilt was made by Mss Ella Teal and friends for Dr. Jackson Brown
Baxley. Mss Teal was Dr. Brown's fiancé when he died suddenly. She never
married.'
A sad story isn't it?
And a few Baltimore album quilts. I will show some photo's (from the many I took!)
And a rather big crazy quilt.
And than we went home over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, back to Maryland after a lovely day full of history, fun and learned a lot!
Groetjes
Annemieke