Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.312
Date:
1912
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 25 in. ( 53.3 x 63.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: center: "PROGRESSIVE/ ROOSEVELT/ 19/ 12/ BATTLE FLAG"
printed: bottom left corner: "D & C/ NY"
printed: around portrait medallion: "COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD NY"
Description:
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief with a central portrait medallion of Theodore Roosevelt surrounded by a field of diamonds; several stripe borders; printed in red and sepia ink on a natural ground.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was made for the 1912 presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt. The portrait is derived from an image by Underwood & Underwood, a photography agency that was based in New York City.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 371.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
