Collection Highlights
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.308
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 24 in. ( 55.9 x 61 cm )
Marks:
printed: in center: "OUR CHOICE/ HARRISON/ AND/ MORTON"
printed: in stars: "REPUBLICAN/ BANNER/ H'D'K'F."
printed: around border: "PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY/ HOME MARKETS FOR HOME ENTERPRISES/ NO COMPETITION WITH HALF PAID LABOR/ AMERICAN WAGES THE HIGH
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton with an inscribed red shield in a field of red and white stars; border of stars and inscriptions; four large inscribed stars in the corners; printed in red on a white ground.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
