Collection Highlights
Freedom to the Slaves
Date:
ca. 1865
Object Number:
PR.052.58
Medium:
Lithograph
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Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.303
Date:
1892
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. ( 47.6 x 48.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: at top: "PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY."
printed: below portraits: "FOR PRESIDENT/ BENJAMIN HARRISON/ FOR VICE PRESIDENT/ WHITELAW REID"
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton campaign kerchief with portraits of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid in a garland with flags and banners on either side and an American bald eagle with the U.S. shield protecting a ship and a factory below; inscribe at top; printed in black in on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the 1892 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Purchase
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