Collection Highlights
Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
Date:
1807
Object Number:
MSS.NewYorkCity.Misc.1
Medium:
Paper
SUPPORT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1953.191
Date:
1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 28 in. ( 59.7 x 71.1 cm )
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
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.
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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Madeleine Riker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
