Penn State has a quilt that Keckley made from dress fabrics, and other items are floating around in collections. Keckley lived in Ohio when she served on the faculty of Wilberforce University. In addition to the historical underpinnings of textile production in colonial America, my research also explores the iconographic complexities of African American quilting, and The quilt is pieced together from pieces of dress fabric which appear to be from the 1860s. https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Keckly/6000000017813440582 For example, Howard University has a pincushion with her name on it. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley—notably, Pictorial Quilt II (1895–8) and the Mary Todd Lincoln Quilt (1860–80). Elizabeth Keckley Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was a fashionable Washington dressmaker who became close to the First Lady during the Civil War. The thread has tarnished. This exhibition assembles quilts which reflect a variety of techniques including appliqué, piecework, crazy quilts, whitework, and embroidery. The quilt, made about 1870, has a central panel with an embroidered eagle and the word Liberty in metallic thread, a word made more significant when one realizes that Elizabeth Keckley was born a slave.