Textile fragment on backing: G. Washington
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1932
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. ( 31.8 x 23.5 cm )
Description:
Cotton printed textile fragment with a repeating pattern of a George Washington portrait, after Gilbert Stuart, in a medallion of stars and foliage with an acorn encircled American bald eagle below; printed in maroon, sepia, blue, teal, and orange on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ollie Scott Butler
Object Number:
1941.665
Gallery Label:
This textile print was issued for the bicentennial celebration of George Washington's birthday.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
29134
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Stenciled textile fragment
Classification:
Date:
1811-1856
Medium:
Cotton, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 15 in. ( 48.3 x 38.1 cm )
Description:
Fragment of cotton textile with two straight, hand-stitched seams and stenciling; single red rose repeated eight times; five small daisy-like flowers in one corner.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Alice Porter Seltzer, 1946
Object Number:
INV.11490yy
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
29130
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scarf: gypsy design
Classification:
Date:
1930-1945
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/2 x 110 1/2 in. ( 57.2 x 280.7 cm )
Description:
Silk printed kerchief with a scene of dancing Gypsies in the center; band of covered wagons and dancing Gypsies; concentric bands of brown, green, orange, and yellow; printed on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Catherine Dunker
Object Number:
1946.154
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
29129
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerchief
Classification:
Date:
1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 28 in. ( 59.7 x 71.1 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton souvenir kerchief from the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA; central oval medallion is an image of the Main Building overlapped by two smaller oval medallions with images of the Art Gallery and the Horticultural Building; Greek key border with portraits of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant garlanded in the upper corners; garlanded seals commemorating the birth of the nation and congresses act to hold the exhibition; printed in black on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Madeleine Riker
Object Number:
1953.191
Marks:
printed: in center: "THE ART GALLERY/ INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876./ MAIN BUILDING/ HORTICULTURAL BUILDING."
printed: on border: "Washington/ Grant/ 1776/ 1876/ PHILADELPHIA/ IN COMMEMORATION OF THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE/ ACT O
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was bought by Ella Carmichael Riker in Philadelphia, who was married to Mr. Alpheus Pierson Riker, Jr.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 203.
Weiss, Hillary. The American Bandanna: Culture on Cloth from George Washington to Elvis. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1990.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
29128
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Stenciled quilt piece
Classification:
Date:
1811-1856
Medium:
Cotton, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. ( 24.4 x 24.8 cm )
Description:
Square white cotton quilt piece with stenciled design; floral spray with red blossoms at center; one flower in each corner.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Alice Porter Seltzer, 1946
Object Number:
INV.11490d
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
29127
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1957 Calender
Classification:
Date:
1957
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 16 in. ( 73.7 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Cotton tea cloth with the 1957 calendar printed in three columns, with vignettes representing the monthly holidays (1957 is printed below August which has no holidays); printed in white, ochre, brown, and black on a tan ground.
Object Number:
INV.11300
Marks:
printed: all over: "JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH/ SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT (x3)/ APRIL MAY JUN/..."
printed: bottom right corner: "Pax Prichard H/B"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1957
eMuseum Object ID:
29120
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Declaration of Independence
Classification:
Date:
1941
Medium:
Rayon
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 26 in. ( 63.5 x 66 cm )
Description:
Rayon printed kerchief with a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence and signatures printed in blue on a white ground; red border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Echo Scarfs
Object Number:
1941.636
Marks:
printed: allover: " IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776/ The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America/ When in the house of human events it becomes neccessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with anoth
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1941
eMuseum Object ID:
29116
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerchief
Classification:
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. ( 49.5 x 51.4 cm )
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief with a print of the figure of liberty holding portraits of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman and personifications of Success and the Pacific; inscribed above and below; printed over the original design of a star pattern in the center and a floral border; printed in black and red on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Hopper Striker Mott
Object Number:
1949.169
Marks:
printed: above and below image: "CLEVELAND AND THURMAN/ Compliments of the San/ Fransisco EXAMINER,/ which was the first paper/ in the United States to/ endorse this ticket."
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman were defeated.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1888
eMuseum Object ID:
29114
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerchief
Classification:
Date:
1912
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
overall: 19 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of Theodore Roosevelt with the "Rough Rider" cowboy hat in the center surrounded by seven rows of his intials, "TR"; border of the "Rough Rider" portrait and red dots; printed in red and sepia on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1949.259
Marks:
printed: all over: "TR"
printed: along border: "Made and sold exclusively by, The National Kerchief Co. New York Chicago and San Francisco/ DESIGN PAT APPLIED FOR/ COPYRIGHT 1912 W.A. LOFTUS"
Gallery Label:
In her book "The American Bandanna," Hillary Weiss writes about this kerchief: "Utilizing Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider image from the Spanish-American War, the National Kerchief Co. printed bandannas for his Bull Moose Party candidacy in 1912. The New York Times reported from the convention: 'A woman stood up and waved a bandanna in the most frantic fashion. The woman was beaming... The woman was Mrs. Roosevelt.'
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:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
29113
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerchief
Classification:
Date:
1912
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. ( 49.5 x 47 cm )
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of Teddy Roosevelt with the "Rough Rider" cowboy hat in the center surrounded by seven rows of his intials, "TR"; border of the "Rough Rider" portrait and red dots; printed in red and sepia on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1952.310
Marks:
printed: all over: "TR"
printed: along border: "Made and sold exclusively by, The National Kerchief Co. New York Chicago and San Francisco/ DESIGN PAT APPLIED FOR/ COPYRIGHT 1912 W.A. LOFTUS"
Gallery Label:
In Hillary Weiss' book, "The American Bandanna," she writes about this kerchief, "Utilizing Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider image from the Spanish-American War, the National Kerchief Co. printed bandannas for his Bull Moose Party candidacy in 1912. The New York Times reported from the convention: 'A woman stood up and waved a bandanna in the most frantic fashion. The woman was beaming... The woman was Mrs. Roosevelt.'
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Weiss, Hillary. The American Bandanna: Culture on Cloth from George Washington to Elvis. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1990.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
29112
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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