Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
Date:
1859
Object Number:
1972.13
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1960.51
Date:
1880
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 21 3/4 in. ( 48.3 x 55.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: below portraits: "GEN. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT/ HON. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT"
printed: above shields: "IN UNION/ IS/ STRENGTH"
printed: in eagle's banner: "E PLURIBUS/ UNUM"
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief with two portrait medallions in the center of Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English with a U.S. shield above and below; in each corner is an American bald eagle with a shield at his breast and arrows and laurel branches in his claws; decorative border; printed in black, red and blue on a natural ground.
Gallery Label:
Hancock and English were unsuccessful candidates for president and vice president in 1880, losing to James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 223.
Credit Line:
Purchase
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