Collection Highlights
Fuller (Flat Iron) Building, New York
Date:
1903
Object Number:
PR.020.61.1
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1941.123
Date:
1848
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. ( 55.2 x 67.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: on medallion borders: "GENERAL . TAYLOR/ Sept. 24, 1846/ STORMING THE HEIGHTS AT MONTEREY/ Feb. 22, 1847/ BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA/ May 9, 1846/ BATTLE OF RISACA DE LA PLANA. CAPTURE OF GEN. VEGA/ May 9, 1846/ BATTLE OF PALO ALTO"
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton campaign kerchief from the 1848 Zachary Taylor presidential campaign; central profile portrait of Taylor surrounded by four vignettes of his successful War campaigns (Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey) and four images of battlefield accoutrements: a tent, cannonballs, a cannon, and a drum; striped background, garland border; printed in sepia and tan ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for General Zachary Taylor's (1784-1850) presidential campaign of 1848.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 128.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Provenance:
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
