From the Back Cover: Now, you will know where to find-the most unique, colorful, and historic quilts; definitive resources for patterns and instructions; crucial and fascinating diaries, journals, letters, and taped oral histories; collections featuring photographs, illustrations, and paintings. Plus, 16-full color and 50 black & white photographs! A directory of more than 700 collections and 25,000 quilts! All the classic quilts form wedding quilts to burial quilts to barn-raising quilts in an extraordinary range of institutions from the Chase Manhattan Bank to the Cherokee Strip Museum. Covering the entire U.S. and Canada, from Homer, Alaska to Norman, Oklahoma, to London, Ontario. You will learn about quilt masterpieces near you, or plan entire vacation trips with this invaluable reference guide! Quilt Collections is the indispensable resource that all quilters, collectors, antique and art-lovers will refer to, and refer others to, for years to come!