Collection Highlights
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book
Date:
1859
Object Number:
LIB.E449.C5372
Medium:
Bound volume
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Campaign kerchief of Cleveland and Stevenson
Object Number:
1938.254
Date:
1892
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. ( 51.8 x 51.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: below portraits: " GROVER CLEVELAND/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT/ 1892/ GEN. A. E. STEVENSON/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT/ 1892"
printed: above flag armorials: " UNION IS STRENGTH"
printed: on eagle armorials: " E PLURIBUS UNUM"
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed presidential campaign kerchief with portraits of Grover Cleveland and General Adlai E. Stevenson in blue on white ground within two ovals; ovals, two U.S. shield armorials and four U.S. bald-eagle armorials in red, white, and blue on red ground; border of hearts, stars, checks, and squares in red, white and blue.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the presidential campaign of 1892.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
