Textile fragment
Classification:
Date:
1850-1950
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. ( 93.3 x 47.6 cm )
Description:
White machine-made silk tulle fragment.
Object Number:
Z.1331.13
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
29639
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag
Classification:
Date:
1896-1907
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 55 x 70 in. ( 139.7 x 177.8 cm )
Description:
Silk U.S. Regimental flag of the 3rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers with 45 gold painted stars in six rows (three rows of seven stars, three rows of eight stars); inscribed in gold across a red stripe at center, "3RD. ALA. INF. U.S. VOLS."; gold fringe trim around three sides, not along the hoist.
Credit Line:
Gift of General Robert Lee Bullard
Object Number:
2047
Marks:
painted: "3RD. ALA. INF. U.S. VOLS."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1907
eMuseum Object ID:
29638
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lace fragment
Classification:
Date:
1825-1875
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/8 x 71 in. ( 9.2 x 180.3 cm )
Description:
Black silk machine-made bobbin lace-style lace trim fragment with plain inner edge, floral motif across the trim and a scalloped outer edge.
Credit Line:
Gift of Constance Sherman
Object Number:
1973.32.3
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
29628
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Broadside
Classification:
Date:
1832
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 18 in. ( 58.4 x 45.7 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed silk broadside of George Washington's "Farewell Address" in four columns with a medallion portrait at the top; printed in black ink on awhite ground; decorative border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1941.116
Marks:
printed: all over: "WASHINGTON'S/ FAREWELL ADDRESS,/ TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, ON RETIRING FROM PUBLIC LIFE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1790./ FELLOW CITIZENS/..."
printed: across base: "M. FITHIAN, PRINTER. No. 6 GEORGE STREET, PHILADELPHIA, 1832"
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979) 53.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1832
eMuseum Object ID:
29616
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bureau scarf
Classification:
Date:
1875-1925
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/4 x 72 x 1/4 in. ( 40 x 182.9 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Darned lace bureau scarf, oval floral pattern in center flanked by bowties and flowers, surrounded by floral motif, fringe on both ends.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor
Object Number:
1973.51g
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
29615
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Napkins
Classification:
Date:
1950
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 x 17 1/2 in. ( 43.2 x 44.4 cm )
Description:
Four cotton printed napkins with medallions in one corner showing the Statue of Atlas at Rockefeller Center; banner above inscribed, "Rockefeller Center"; printed in red and blue; red and blue borders and blue stars.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
1950.317b-e
Marks:
printed: on banner: "RockeFeller Center"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
29613
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Curtain
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Cotton, ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 122 1/2 x 75 x 1/4 in. ( 311.2 x 190.5 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
One white lace curtain panel on cotton batiste ground, with chainstitch and drawnwork, gathered across the top with six ivory buttons anchoring loops from which to suspend the panel, scalloped edges on sides and bottom, airy floral pattern throughout with dense floral border around sides and bottom.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.1092
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:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
29611
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Apron: cotton centenary, 1790-1890
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 1/2 x 32 in. ( 87.6 x 81.3 cm )
Description:
Cotton lithographed souvenir apron celebrating the Cotton Centennary 1790-1890 with a reapeating pattern of red, white and blue stripes with stars in each overlayed with a medallion portrait of Samuel Slater and a medallion with an image of the Old Slater Mill, both within laural garlands, image of Pawtucket at time of production below with American flags on either side; printed in sepia, red and blue on a white ground.
Object Number:
INV.11478
Marks:
printed: center: "1790/1890/ NEW IDEA STORE/ PAWTUCKET R.I./ COTTON CENTENNARY/ PRODUCED AT HOME/ BY DUNNELL MANFC. Co./ 1890/1790"
Gallery Label:
Samuel Slater established the first factory for spinning yarn in the United States in 1790, and later perfected spinning machinery.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
29608
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag: 45 stars
Classification:
Date:
1896-1902
Medium:
Wool, cotton, metal grommets
Dimensions:
Overall: 55 x 91 1/2 in. ( 139.7 x 232.4 cm )
Description:
Wool machine-sewn U.S. flag with forty-five cotton stars applied to both sides of the blue canton (three rows of eight stars interspaced with three rows of seven stars); thirteen red and white stripes; white hoist with metal grommets a each end.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Samuel L. Israel
Object Number:
1942.548
Gallery Label:
This was the last U.S. flag to be lowered at the palace in Havana, Cuba, when the American troops evacuated the city in 1902.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1902
eMuseum Object ID:
29599
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scarf
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Cotton, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 7/8 x 60 3/4 in. ( 22.5 x 154.3 cm )
Description:
White cotton mull furniture scarf, the long edges are hemmed and have drawnwork along the hem, the ends are machine embroidered with white cotton floss in a floral design, the end edges are scalloped and finished with buttonhole stitch.
Object Number:
Z.1331.3
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
29588
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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