Collection Highlights
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.052.56.GrantUniform.Photos.
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printed textile of William Henry Harrison
Object Number:
1944.145
Date:
1840
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 64.1 x 64.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: in center: "WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON/ The FARMER of North Bend/ THAMES/ NORTH BEND/ TIPPECANOE/ TREATY"
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton campaign kerchief with an equestrian portrait of William Henry Harrison surrounded by six vignettes representing events in his life in circles with farming implements, flags and banners; acanthus garland border; printed in red ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 100.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
