Collection Highlights
Pastoral Scene by Andrew R. Smith
Date:
1822
Object Number:
MSS.BV.AfricanFreeSchool.Vol4.
Medium:
Manuscript
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.83
Date:
1952
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
overall: 26 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.
Marks:
printed: center: "WIN/ WITH IKE/ FOR PRESIDENT"
printed: below portrait: "I LIKE IKE"
printed: around banner: "IKE"
printed: corner: "FAST [elephant logo] COLOR"
Description:
Cotton screenprinted campaign kerchief with a medallion portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower in lower right corner surrounded by stars and banners hung with U.S. shields in the four corners; inscribed in center and around banner; printed in red and blue on a white ground.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Weiss, Hillary. The American Bandanna: Culture on Cloth from George Washington to Elvis. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1990.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Charlotte Lowell
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
