Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Campaign handkerchief
Object Number:
1952.328
Date:
1952
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. ( 28.6 x 28.6 cm )
Marks:
embroidered: lower right corner: "I like Ike"
printed: on rectangular sticker: "Logan/ MADE IN SWITZERLAND"
printed: on round sticker: "EMBROIDERED/ IKE/ IN SWITZERLAND"
Description:
White linen handkerchief with scalloped border machine stitched with blue thread and machine embroidered "I like Ike" in blue thread in lower right corner.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979), 494.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
