Collection Highlights
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Date:
1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Moore.1
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Luce Center
Scarf
Object Number:
2003.91
Date:
1968
Medium:
Acetate
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/2 x 44 3/4 in. ( 34.3 x 113.7 cm )
Description:
Acetate Richard Nixon campaign scarf with background of shades of blue and red with "Nixon" printed four times in white in script from.
Gallery Label:
This scarf, designed in the "groovy" aesthetic of the 1960s, was issued during Richard M. Nixon's 1968 bid for the presidency.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 523.
Credit Line:
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