Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ribbon/ bookmark
Object Number:
2002.1.1937
Date:
1876
Medium:
Silk, paper
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
Description:
A silk woven souvenir ribbon bookmarker from the 1876 Centennial celebration still mounted on its original paper card. The multicolored ribbon has a central image of George Washington below the words "Centennial/ 1776-1876/ U.S.A./ The Father Of Our Country". Below Washington are two crossed flags, an image of the Centennial pavillion, an eagle and shield and a poem that reads "George Washington/ The first in peace,/ The first in war,/ The first in the/ Hearts of his/ Countrymen". The card reads "Thomas Stevens/ Coventry and London/ Inventor and Manufacturer of the / Pure Silk Woven Bookmarkers".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
