Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.1
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Campaign kerchief
Object Number:
1952.300
Date:
1900
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 18 in. ( 48.3 x 45.7 cm )
Marks:
printed: at center: THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE./ FOR VICE-PRESIDENT/ THEO. ROOSEVELT,/ 1900."
printed: on bow: " PROTECTION,/ EXPANSION, / PROSPERITY,/ SOUND MONEY."
printed: on saddle: "G.O.P."
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed vice-presidential campaign kerchief with "Rough Rider" image of Theodore Roosevelt on horseback in black ink on a white ground; image surounded by a laurel garland with a bow.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the presidential campaign of 1900.
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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