Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printed textile of Washington and Lincoln
Object Number:
1941.113
Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. ( 54.6 x 59.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: on ribbon: "THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY/ THE SAVIOR OF HIS COUNTRY"
Description:
Cotton lithographed kerchief with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln above laurel branches tied with inscribed ribbon; American bald eagle above portraits; American flag in corners; border of stars; purple on white ground.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 150.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
