Collection Highlights
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
Date:
ca. 1788
Object Number:
MSS.JohnJayPapers.1
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Campaign handkerchief
Object Number:
2003.92
Date:
1940
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 x 10 1/2 in. ( 27.9 x 26.7 cm )
Marks:
embroidered: in corner: "Roosevelt"
Description:
White linen campaign handkerchief; top hat and "Roosevelt" embroidered in red and blue in lower right corner.
Gallery Label:
This handkerchief was used in the 1940 presidential campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 451.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
