Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Kerchief
Object Number:
2003.94
Date:
1928
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. ( 46.4 x 36.2 cm )
Description:
Silk crepe Alfred E. Smith presidential campaign kerchief; sepia portrait of Smith at center with facsimile signature below; red, white and blue border.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was used for the presidential campaign of New York Governor Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Smith lost the election to Republican Herbert Hoover.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 414.
Credit Line:
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