Collection Highlights
Subway controller
Date:
1904
Object Number:
1922.103
Medium:
Silver, steel, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.332
Date:
1952
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. ( 67.9 x 67.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: center: "WIN/ WITH IKE/ FOR PRESIDENT"
PRINTED: below IMAGE: "I LIKE IKE"
printed: around banner: "IKE"
Description:
Cotton screen printed campaign kerchief with a medallion portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower in lower right corner surrounded by stars and banners hung with U.S. shields in the four corners; inscribed in center and around banner; printed in red and blue on a white ground.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway Collins. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979.
Weiss, Hillary. The American Bandanna: Culture on Cloth from George Washington to Elvis. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1990.
Credit Line:
Gift of Arthur B. Carlson
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
