Printed textile of Cleveland and Thurman
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 19 in. ( 48.3 x 48.3 cm )
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed presidential campaign kerchief in black and white with red border; portraits of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman in laurel garlands; in center are two crossed brooms and a pole topped by a rooster; border of red dots and red and pink circles.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1952.301
Marks:
printed: all over: "OUR CANDIDATES/ 1888/ For President/ Grover Cleaveland/ For Vice President/ Allen G. Thurman. "
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the presidential campaign of 1888. According to Hillary Weiss in "The American Bandanna," "one night at a Democratic rally, vice-presidential nominee Allen Thurman pulled a red bandana from his pocket, complaining it would have been cheaper without the import tariff. He was dubbed 'Old Pockethandkercheif,' ... and the bandanna itself, became the Democrats' 1888 symbol of consumer rights."
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:
1888
eMuseum Object ID:
28601
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coverlet
Classification:
Date:
1825-1850
Medium:
Wool, cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 90 1/2 x 82 1/2 x 1/4 in. ( 229.9 x 209.6 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Overshot blue wool and white cotton coverlet composed of two vertical sections hand-sewn together; double chariot wheels pattern.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number:
1947.59
Gallery Label:
The "overshot" weaving technique was one commonly used in the early nineteenth century. The term refers to the long passes of supplementary wool weft that overshoot the surface of the plain weave foundation and form the geometric pattern (see "American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," p. 137).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
28600
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt tops (2)
Classification:
Date:
1825-1875
Medium:
Silk
Description:
Two silk quilt tops composed of triangular patchwork pieces hand-stitched together.
Object Number:
INV.4885ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
28599
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sampler
Classification:
Date:
1750-1810
Medium:
Linen, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. ( 34.9 x 24.1 cm )
Description:
Vertical rectangular linen sampler stitched with green silk; alphabets in horizontal rows separated by lines of stitching; surrounded by cross-stitched border; stitches include cross, satin, outline, buttonhole, chain, queen, and running.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Edna Morse
Object Number:
1952.3
Marks:
embroidered: bottom edge, in green: "Elizabeth Burrill/samPler workd/in her 10 Year 10"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
28597
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Rug: squares w/knotted work in star design
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1860-1890
Medium:
Wool
Dimensions:
Overall: 47 x 21 x 3/4 in. ( 119.4 x 53.3 x 1.9 cm )
Description:
Rectangular runner composed of 18 blocks of black wool fabric, each with a single star with thick, two-color pile outline and small pompom at center; with feather-stitching along seams, and green croqueted border and multi-colored tassels on each each short side.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.11817
Marks:
handwritten in ink: on paper "NADELMAN Collection" label attached to object: "2850 / Am."
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:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
28596
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
"The House that Jack Built"
Classification:
Date:
1844
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/2 x 15 1/8 in. ( 34.3 x 38.4 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with nine vignettes, in three columns, from "The House that Jack Built"; printed with sepia ink on a white background.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Mrs. Lawrence J. Ullman
Object Number:
1945.147
Marks:
printed: all over: " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by Gorham L. Pollard in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachussetts. / This is the House that Jack built. / ..."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1844
eMuseum Object ID:
28595
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coverlet
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Wool, cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 76 1/2 x 64 1/4 x 1/4 in. ( 194.3 x 163.2 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Overshot blue wool and white cotton coverlet composed of three unequal vertical sections hand-sewn together; checkerboard pattern with superimposed grid.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1317
Gallery Label:
The "overshot" weaving technique was one commonly used in the early nineteenth century. The term refers to the long passes of supplementary wool weft that overshoot the surface of the plain weave foundation and form the geometric pattern.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
28594
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pewterers' banner
Collections:
Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Highlight:
Display this item in the highlights
Date:
1788
Medium:
Silk, paint
Dimensions:
Frame: 92 x 120 x 2 3/4 in. (233.7 x 304.8 x 7 cm)
Description:
Painted silk banner with fringe on top, bottom, and right sides; painted American flag with 13 stars in upper left corner; pewterers' arms below flag, with two figures on either side of a shield and banner reading "SOLID AND PURE."; at right, painted image of interior of a pewterer's shop, with "SOCIETY of PEWTERERS" painted above shelf of three pewter objects; four figures at work making pewter objects.
Credit Line:
Gift of James S. Haring
Object Number:
1903.12
Marks:
painted: at top right: "The Federal Plan Most Solid & Secure/Americans Their Freedom Will Endure/All Art Shall Flourish in Columbia's Land/And All her Sons Join as One Social Band"
painted: below shield: "SOLID AND PURE."
painted: above shop image: "SOC
Gallery Label:
This banner was carried by the Society of Pewterers of the City of New York in the Federal Procession of July 23, 1788, which celebrated the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. It is one of the only banners known to have survived from celebratory parades held in such cities as Baltimore, Charleston, Philadelphia, and Boston. The banner descended in the family of pewterer William J. Elsworth (1746-1814), who presumably carried the banner in the New York procession.
Bibliography:
Bach, Debra Schmidt. "Witness to history: Furniture and historic relics." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 162-167.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1788
eMuseum Object ID:
28593
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign flag
Classification:
Date:
1863
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. ( 41.9 x 64.8 cm )
Description:
Cotton lithographed U. S. campaign flag with thirty-five stars in the canton; printed in red and blue ink on a white ground; inscribed in the white stripes to the right of the canton; section of ground removed and replaced with two printed patches inscribed with "ABRAHAM LINCOLN" and "ANDREW JOHNSON" machine stitched.
Credit Line:
Samuel T. Shaw Memorial Collection
Object Number:
1946.243
Marks:
Inscription (printed): Printed in center: "FOR PRESIDENT,/ ABRAHAM LINCOLN./ FOR VICE PRESIDENT,/ ANDREW JOHNSON./ THE UNION AND THE CONSTITUTION"
Inscription (printed): Originally printed, but names removed from object: "FOR PRESIDENT,/ JOHN BELL./ FOR
Gallery Label:
This campaign flag was originally inscribed for the Presidential campaign of John Bell and Edward Everett (see inscriptions). Their names were cut from the flag and replaced with Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's names.
Bibliography:
Holzer, Harold, ed. "Lincoln and New York." New York: The New-York Historical Society and London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 2009.
Holzer, Harold and The New-York Historical Society. "The Civil War in 50 Objects." New York: Viking, 2013.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1863
eMuseum Object ID:
28565
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Dismemberment of Poland
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. ( 54.6 x 56.5 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with a central vignette with the personification of Poland being picked apart by vultures; surrounded by portraits of Gen. Washington, Gen. LaFayette, Gen. Kosciusko, and the King of Poland as well as armorial style groupings suspended from garlands and two medallions filled with text; red ink printed on white ground; decorative border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1941.127
Marks:
printed: in medallions: "The Polish Revolution, one/ equally happy as honerable both to Kings People,/ has for its Era the memorable 3rd of May 1791./ ..."
Gallery Label:
The dismemberment of Poland by the Congress of Vienna occured on June 9, 1815.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 60.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
28561
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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