Folded scarf

Classification: 
Date: 
1880-1920
Medium: 
Silk
Dimensions: 
Overall: 27 1/2 x 27 3/4 in. ( 69.8 x 70.5 cm )
Description: 
Silk woven plaid kerchief with olive, pink, blue, black, white and yellow fibers; fringed.
Object Number: 
INV.999
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
29244
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Campaign flag

Classification: 
Date: 
1884
Medium: 
Cotton
Dimensions: 
Overall: 25 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. ( 65.4 x 46.4 cm )
Description: 
Cotton lithographed campaign flag with a portrait medallion of James G. Blaine surrounded by stars and sawtooth border on a U.S. flag with forty-two stars in the canton; printed in black, red, and blue on a white ground.
Credit Line: 
Purchase
Object Number: 
1957.82
Marks: 
printed: below portrait: "JAMES G. BLAINE"
Bibliography: 

Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 231.

Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1884
eMuseum Object ID: 
29242
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Kerchief

Classification: 
Date: 
1888
Medium: 
Silk
Dimensions: 
Overall: 22 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. ( 56.5 x 54 cm )
Description: 
White silk kerchief with lithographed medallion portraits of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman surrounded by laurel and oak leaf garlands in one corner; printed in black ink.
Credit Line: 
Gift of A. J. Wall
Object Number: 
1941.667
Gallery Label: 
This kerchief was made for the 1888 presidential campaign of Grover Cleveland and his running mate, Allen G. Thurman.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1888
eMuseum Object ID: 
29241
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Kerchief

Classification: 
Date: 
1896
Medium: 
Cotton
Dimensions: 
Overall: 27 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. ( 69.8 x 64.1 cm )
Description: 
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of William McKinley and Garret Hobart; red, white and blue stripes, stars in the red and blue stripes, portraits in center white stripe flanked by U.S. flags and a U.S. shield above; printed in red, blue and yellow on a white ground.
Credit Line: 
Purchase
Object Number: 
1952.298
Marks: 
printed: center: "PROTECTION/ FINANCIAL/ STABILITY/ RECIPROCITY/ FOR PRESIDENT/ WILLIAM Mc.KINLEY/ FOR VICE PRESIDENT/ GARRET A. HOBART"
Gallery Label: 
This kerchief was made for the 1896 presidential campaign of William McKinley.
Bibliography: 

Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 304.

Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1896
eMuseum Object ID: 
29240
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Textile fragment

Classification: 
Date: 
1840
Medium: 
Cotton
Dimensions: 
Overall: 28 x 23 in. ( 71.1 x 58.4 cm )
Description: 
Roller-printed cotton yardage fragment with a reapeating pattern of William Henry Harrison's log cabin, cider barrels, cannons and other campaign symbols of his 1840 presidential campaign in a cluster of roses; printed in sepia and rose on a natural ground.
Credit Line: 
Purchase
Object Number: 
1960.74
Marks: 
Stamped (cut): top back: "[36]"
Gallery Label: 
This textile was made for the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.
Bibliography: 

Collins, Herbert Ridgeway Collins. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979.

Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1840
eMuseum Object ID: 
29239
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Kerchief

Classification: 
Date: 
1888
Medium: 
Cotton
Dimensions: 
Overall: 22 x 24 in. ( 55.9 x 61 cm )
Description: 
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton with an inscribed red shield in a field of red and white stars; border of stars and inscriptions; four large inscribed stars in the corners; printed in red on a white ground.
Credit Line: 
Purchase
Object Number: 
1952.308
Marks: 
printed: in center: "OUR CHOICE/ HARRISON/ AND/ MORTON" printed: in stars: "REPUBLICAN/ BANNER/ H'D'K'F." printed: around border: "PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY/ HOME MARKETS FOR HOME ENTERPRISES/ NO COMPETITION WITH HALF PAID LABOR/ AMERICAN WAGES THE HIGH
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: 
29238
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Linen towel: Fulton's Folly

Classification: 
Date: 
1941
Medium: 
Linen
Dimensions: 
Overall: 28 3/4 x 16 in. ( 73 x 40.6 cm )
Description: 
Linen printed tea towel with a garland enclosing a scene with a man, woman, and child with balloon watching a steamboat pass by; printed in red, blue, yellow, green and black on a white ground; blue and red foliate border.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Leacock & Co., Inc.
Object Number: 
1941.652
Marks: 
printed: below image: "FULTON'S FOLLY"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1941
eMuseum Object ID: 
29234
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bag: embroidered w/soldiers & 1914-1918

Classification: 
Date: 
1918
Medium: 
Linen, silk
Dimensions: 
Overall: 21 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 1/2 in. ( 53.7 x 34.9 x 1.3 cm )
Description: 
Vertical rectangular white linen shopping bag from World War I, white silk crocheted cord drawstring closure with stand-up collar, drawstring with tassels at the ends, embroidery in various colors of silk floss on both sides; the bottom half of one side depicts six uniformed soldiers standing in a row, the figure far left holds a banner representing the French flag, on the far right, five banners are set one on top of the other, representing the allied flags of Italy, France, Germany, England and the United States; the center of the other side shows an abstract representation of an eagle holding a banner in its beak and wing, and olive branches and arrows in its claws, with an American armorial; both sides have green geometric border across the bottom edge, and each vertical side has wite silk crocheted edging applied.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Hortense Abbott Carney
Object Number: 
1935.48b
Marks: 
embroidered: bottom center, soldier side: "1914-1918" embroidered: bottom center, eagle side: "1918"
Gallery Label: 
This shopping bag, along with 1935.48a, was given to the donor by French peasant women.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1918
eMuseum Object ID: 
29232
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Printed cotton drape w/ curtain rings

Classification: 
Date: 
1790-1800
Medium: 
Cotton, linen
Dimensions: 
Overall: 87 x 29 3/4 x 1 in. ( 221 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm )
Description: 
Cotton copperplate-printed curtain with the apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin depicted in red on white ground; additional figures include a personification of liberty standing next to Franklin and a female warrior holding a shield with thirteen stars floating in the air on his opposite side, George Washington standing upright in a chariot drawn by a pair of leopards and led by two Native Americans blowing trumpets and waving banners, and a pair of cupids holding between them an oval map showing the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern half of North America; linen lining.
Credit Line: 
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number: 
1937.514
Marks: 
printed: on banner held by Franklin: WHERE LIBERTY / DWELLS THERE IS / MY COUNTRY" printed: on temple frieze: "TEMPLE OF FAME" printed: on shield held by allegorical figure seated next to Washington: "AMERICAN / INDEPEND- / -ANCE. / 1776"
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: 
1800
eMuseum Object ID: 
29228
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bookmarks (qty. 3)

Classification: 
Date: 
1850-1900
Medium: 
Silk, paper
Dimensions: 
overall a: 12 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. ( 31.8 x 5.4 cm )
Description: 
One of three silk ribbon bookmarks with perforated paper embroidery in various colors of silk floss, applied to ribbon with stitching; white silk ribbon with a picture of a chapel and a religious motto
Object Number: 
INV.1684a
Marks: 
embroidered: across bottom, "a": "The Lord is is [sic] in his / holy temple"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
29229
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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