Collection Highlights
Tammany Bank
Date:
ca. 1875
Object Number:
1937.1237
Medium:
Iron, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scarf: Protection to American labor
Object Number:
INV.11306
Date:
1888
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 20 in. ( 49.5 x 50.8 cm )
Marks:
printed: in medallion: "Protection/ to/ American Labor/ AND/ American Industries./ STATES/ TERRITORIES"
Description:
Copperplate-printed silk campaign kerchief with a medalion with thirty-eight stars at the top represnting the states and eight stars at the bottom representing the territories with a flag and American bald eagle in the center; printed in blue ink on a white ground; red and blue stripes down the sides.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 270.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
