Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scarf: New York Worlds Fair, 1939
Object Number:
1941.383
Date:
1939
Medium:
Rayon
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 20 in. ( 48.3 x 50.8 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939 (4x) Marine/ Transportation/ Means of Production/ hall of Communication/ Perisphere/ and/ TRYLON/ Business Administration/ Administration/ Textile Building/ Railroad Building/ Federal Building"
printed: in c
Description:
Rayon printed kerchief with exhibits from the 1939 New York World's Fair including the Trylon and Perisphere, Railroad Building, Marine Transporatation and others; Trylon and Perisphere in two opposite corners; printed in white, red, yellow, and navy on a blue ground; border of navy triangles.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 439.
Credit Line:
Gift of H. Maxson Holloway
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
