Collection Highlights
The N. O. massacre
Date:
1866
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1866.43
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The Blackberry girl
Object Number:
1952.316
Date:
1850-1880
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. ( 28.6 x 29.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: allover: "THE BLACKBERRY GIRL....In two Parts./ PART FIRST/ .../ Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, Boston."
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with the poem "The Blackberry Girl .... In two Parts" printed in three columns with three vignettes across the top; printed in black ink on a white ground; decorative border.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
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