Collection Highlights
The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
Date:
Object Number:
PR.068.34
Medium:
Paper, engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Primary Lesson No. 8
Object Number:
1952.317
Date:
1850-1855
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 11 1/8 in. ( 31.1 x 28.3 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "PRIMARY LESSONS. No. 8./ THE LITTLE CHILD./ .../ A MORNING PRAYER./ .../ THE CHILD'S TIME TABLE./ .../ THE INFANT SCHOOL BOY./ .../ ANNA AND HER CHICKEN."
hand written: bottom right corner: in script "C L Haynes"
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief of five children's poems titled "Primary Lessons. No. 8.", divided into three colums with a vignette at the top of each; side columns have two poems each, one in the center column; decorative border; printed in black ink 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
Provenance:
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
