Collection Highlights
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory
Date:
April 24, 1803
Object Number:
MSS.Y1803
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Luce Center
Printed textile: Pearl Harbor, 1941
Object Number:
1942.489
Date:
1941
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 37 in. ( 91.4 x 94 cm )
Marks:
printed: in center in banners: "Pearl Harbor/ 1941"
printed: along selvage: "'A LEHMAN-CONNOR HANDPRINT'/ Designed by Ollie Scott Butler"
Description:
Cotton hand-blocked yardage sample with an all over pattern commemorating Pearl Harbor; images of Army and Navy men, nurses, farmers and laborers, Uncle Sam, the dome of the White House, and the Japanese dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor; images divided by red and blue banners with an American bald eagle and palm fronds; printed in red, blue, grey and black on a white ground; two color swatches sewn to top.
Credit Line:
Gift of H. B. Lehman-Connor Co., Inc.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
