Collection Highlights
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris
Date:
ca. 1780
Object Number:
1954.148
Medium:
Oak, leather, metal
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Handkerchief
Object Number:
INV.7322
Date:
1888
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. ( 38.7 x 40 cm )
Marks:
printed: on banner: "PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRIES"
Description:
Printed silk handkerchief with an American flag with 38 stars and a banner; stars in the four corners; printed in red and blue on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was used in the presidential campaign of Benjamin Harrison in 1888.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 271.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
