Collection Highlights
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Date:
ca. 1869
Object Number:
LIB.CT.T8855.B7
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile fragment
Object Number:
1960.74
Date:
1840
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 23 in. ( 71.1 x 58.4 cm )
Marks:
Stamped (cut): top back: "[36]"
Description:
Roller-printed cotton yardage fragment with a reapeating pattern of William Henry Harrison's log cabin, cider barrels, cannons and other campaign symbols of his 1840 presidential campaign in a cluster of roses; printed in sepia and rose on a natural ground.
Gallery Label:
This textile was made for the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway Collins. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979.
Credit Line:
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