Collection Highlights
Geometrical Lathe-work Proof
Date:
Object Number:
PR.221.63
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Object Number:
1941.895
Date:
1939
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 3/4 x 21 in. ( 52.7 x 53.3 cm )
Marks:
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS"
printed: in center: "SOUTHERN RAILROAD/ HANGING ROCK BATTLEFIELD/ NORTH TO LANCASTER/ KERSHAW/ YANKEES AT POLO/ CAMDEN/ HAILE GOLD MINE/ TO COLUMBIA AND CAMDEN/ OIL MILL"
Description:
Screenprinted cotton kerchief of a pictorial map of Kershaw, South Carolina, with a woman in a bathing suit, a battlefield, factories, and a polo field; inner border red with white stacking squares, blue outer border; printed in red, blue, green, yellow, and black on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
Hillary Weiss writes in the "American Bandanna," "Springs Cotton Mills, set up in1887 at Fort Mill and expanded in 1912 to Kershaw, South Carolina, celebrated its golden anniversary in 1937.
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph Peto
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
