Blanket from the British brig "Boxer"
Classification:
Date:
1800-1813
Medium:
Wool
Dimensions:
Overall: 86 3/4 x 69 x 1/4 in. ( 220.3 x 175.3 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Ivory colored woven wool blanket with a pair of narrow blue bands bordering upper and lower edge; said to have been taken from the British brig "Boxer" during the War of 1812.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Jean Conkey
Object Number:
1964.44
Gallery Label:
On September 5, 1813, the British brig "Boxer" was captured off the Maine coast by the U.S. brig "Enterprise." According to the donor, this blanket was taken from the British ship at the time of its capture.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1813
eMuseum Object ID:
28488
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed campaign bandana of Cleveland and Thurman
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 23 in. ( 58.4 x 58.4 cm )
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed presidential campaign kerchief in black, white, and red; portraits of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman in laurel garlands; in center are two crossed brooms and a pole topped by a rooster; pattern of white squares with red circles inside around edge.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Stanley Herzman
Object Number:
1976.25
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:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 267.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1888
eMuseum Object ID:
28475
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign handkerchief
Classification:
Date:
1952
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. ( 28.6 x 28.6 cm )
Description:
White linen handkerchief with scalloped border machine stitched with blue thread and machine embroidered "I like Ike" in blue thread in lower right corner.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1952.328
Marks:
embroidered: lower right corner: "I like Ike"
printed: on rectangular sticker: "Logan/ MADE IN SWITZERLAND"
printed: on round sticker: "EMBROIDERED/ IKE/ IN SWITZERLAND"
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979), 494.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1952
eMuseum Object ID:
28473
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sunday Lessons. No. 1.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1855
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 11 3/8 in. ( 30.5 x 28.9 cm )
Description:
Cotton copper-engraved kerchief titled "Sunday Lessons. No. 1." with six religious children's poems and three vignettes; the vignettes are across the top, the poems are divided into three columns below, two poems in each column; decorative border; printed in blue ink on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.604
Marks:
printed: all over: "SUNDAY LESSONS. No. 1. / COUNT THAT DAY LOST, WHOSE SLOW DESCENDING SUN, VIEWS FROM THY HAND NO WORK OF GOODNESS DONE. / CHILDREN"S PRAYER./ ... / THE SABBATH./ ... / MARY'S LAMB. / .../ PRAISE./ ... / RELIGION- WHAT IS IT?/ .../ LORD'
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
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 134.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
28472
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Centennial Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 1876
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 23 1/2 in. ( 50.8 x 59.7 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with image of the Centennial Art Gallery, Philadelphia, printed in black ink on a white ground; red decorative border.
Object Number:
X.91
Marks:
printed: below image: "CENTENNIAL ART GALLERY/ PHILADELPHIA 1876"
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1776 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
28471
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Painted textile of woman and pear tree
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 5/8 x 26 in. ( 52.4 x 66 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet of a landscape with two women beneath a pear tree and a house in the background; painted with blue, green, sepia, yellow and black paint on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1235
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28470
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed textile of Centennial Exhibition
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 8 in. ( 17.8 x 20.3 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet; garland of moss roses and leaves painted in sepia, indigo, and tan on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.348
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28467
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
painting of fruit basket
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 23.2 x 19 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet; plate of fruit and leaves with a knife; painted with blue, indigo, sepia, black, and green on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.350
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sampler
Classification:
Date:
1834
Medium:
Linen, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 17 1/2 in. ( 22.9 x 44.4 cm )
Description:
Horizontal rectangular linen sampler with various colors silk floss; alphabet across top, verse in center with designs on each side, inscription across bottom, bordered on sides and top with floral motif; stitches include cross, feather and satin.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.1207
Marks:
embroidered: bottom center, brown floss: "Henrietta Schnip / 1834"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
28463
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sampler
Classification:
Date:
1851
Medium:
Linen, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. ( 22.5 x 21 cm )
Description:
Vertical rectangular linen sampler with blue and brown silk floss; horizontal rows of alphabets and numbers on upper two-thirds separated by rows of design, inscription across bottom third; cross stitched.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edith D. Blaisdell
Object Number:
1956.95
Marks:
embroidered: bottom, in blue floss: "Thomas C Fanning. / 24 Prospect St. / Brooklyn Feb. 1851."
Gallery Label:
The circumstances motivating a middle-class schoolboy in mid-nineteenth-century New York to execute a sampler are unclear, but Thomas Coit Fanning (b. 1840) may have worked his while attending Brooklyn's Public School 13. Born in upstate New York, Thomas moved with his family to Brooklyn when he was nine years old. He went on to attend New York University and practice medicine in Tarrytown, New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1851
eMuseum Object ID:
28460
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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