Kerchief
Classification:
Date:
1940-1945
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 25 in. ( 63.5 x 63.5 cm )
Description:
Cotton printed kerchief with text and an American bald eagle in center; printed in red and blue on a white ground; red and blue borders.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock
Object Number:
Z.1157
Marks:
printed: allover: "NATIONAL DEFENSE/ AMERICA'S PATRIOTS!/ WE MUST PREPARE TO MEET OUR MORAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL/ ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WITH A STRONG FAITH &/ ..."
printed: bottom right: "Helen S. Hitchcock - Designer"
Gallery Label:
Helen Sargent Hitchcock, who had studied painting at the Art Students League, founded the Art Workers Club for Women in 1898 and the Art Alliance of America in 1914. Out of these grew the Art Center, which she founded in 1920. The Art Center joined seven afilliate organizations under a single building on East 56th Street in New York City, including the Art Alliance, the Society of Illustrators, the American Institute of Graphic Art, and the Art Directors Club.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
28657
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cloth: George Washington w/shield of U.S.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/8 x 17 3/8 in. ( 61.9 x 44.1 cm )
Description:
Printed cotton textile panel with a full-length equestrian portrait of George Washington in a medallion with a shield of America above and below printed in red, blue, sepia, tan, and pink on a white ground; red and white striped background; red, white, and blue border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1938.2
Marks:
printed: on shields: "SHIELD OF U.S. AMERICA"
printed: above portrait: "WASHINGTON"
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 188.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
28652
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Textile fragment
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 23 3/4 in. ( 40.6 x 60.3 cm )
Description:
Block-printed cotton textile fragment with image of an American bald eagle above a floral garland (image repeats); eagle is white and sepia over a red ground; flowers are pink, blue-green, blue and sepia; the color printing is mis-registered.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1941.118
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
28645
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sampler
Classification:
Date:
1800
Medium:
Linen, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. ( 45.1 x 44.4 cm )
Description:
Square linen sampler with various colors of silk thread; four-stanza poem, "The Rose," with strawberry-vine border and decorative motifs including fruit baskets and urns with flowers; stitches include cross and satin.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edith F. Ebbets
Object Number:
1950.307
Marks:
embroidered: bottom in green floss: "Margaret Ferdon's work New York 1800"
Gallery Label:
Margaret Ferdon was only six years old when she worked this sampler. The daughter of a carpenter, she was raised in Brooklyn and Manhattan and married James Chivvis in the city's Dutch Reformed Church in 1814.
Margaret's verse, "The Rose," was first published in 1715 in "Divine and Moral Songs for Children" by Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Works by Watts, a prolific and influential English minister, were popular for over a century after his death. Reprinted numerous times by New York City printers, "Divine and Moral Songs" was a popular source for schoolgirl sampler verse.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
28644
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
"The Picture Alphabet"
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1855
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 10 3/4 in. ( 30.5 x 27.3 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief in blue ink on white ground, of a picture alphabet in 28 rectangles in four columns with images of animals and objects representing each letter; "&" and the company name also are in rectangles; flower border.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.603
Marks:
printed: at bottom corner: " THE/ PICTURE/ ALPHABET. / BOSTON CHEMICAL PRINTING COMPANY"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
28643
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt top
Classification:
Date:
1825-1875
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 73 x 61 x 1/8 in. ( 185.4 x 154.9 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Silk quilt top composed of triangular patchwork pieces hand-stitched together.
Object Number:
INV.4885b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
28642
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt top
Classification:
Date:
1825-1875
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 72 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 1/8 in. ( 184.2 x 123.8 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Silk quilt top composed of triangular patchwork pieces hand-stitched together.
Object Number:
INV.4885a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
28641
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign kerchief of Cleveland and Stevenson
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1892
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. ( 51.8 x 51.1 cm )
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed presidential campaign kerchief with portraits of Grover Cleveland and General Adlai E. Stevenson in blue on white ground within two ovals; ovals, two U.S. shield armorials and four U.S. bald-eagle armorials in red, white, and blue on red ground; border of hearts, stars, checks, and squares in red, white and blue.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1938.254
Marks:
printed: below portraits: " GROVER CLEVELAND/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT/ 1892/ GEN. A. E. STEVENSON/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT/ 1892"
printed: above flag armorials: " UNION IS STRENGTH"
printed: on eagle armorials: " E PLURIBUS UNUM"
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the presidential campaign of 1892.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1892
eMuseum Object ID:
28640
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt
Classification:
Date:
1810-1830
Medium:
Silk, cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 86 1/4 x 84 x 1/8 in. ( 219.1 x 213.4 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Quilt with front composed of 260 rectangular patchwork blocks with pieced octagon motif; black velvet binding and plain (now badly discolored) cotton backing; diagonal grid pattern quilting.
Credit Line:
Gift of William Russell Bogert and Helen North (Bogert) Parmele
Object Number:
1949.24
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, the donors believed that Laurana Rowe North, their great-grandmother, may have made this quilt in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1812, while on her wedding trip.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
28638
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lace Sampler
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. ( 22.5 x 20 cm )
Description:
Vertical rectangular white lace sampler representing twenty-four embroidery patterns.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Eugene H. Pool
Object Number:
1944.136
Marks:
printed: on lower right of reverse: "Property of Lawrence Pool and Beekman Pool"
Gallery Label:
The statement of ownership accompanying the object indicates that it was formerly owned by Margaret S. Brown, who inherited it from her aunt, Charlotte French Schenk. Schenk's mother, Katherine Lawrence French, was formerly the owner, who may have been the maker; or, it may have been made by her mother, Mrs. John French.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
28637
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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