Collection Highlights
Portrait of Six Young Women Seated in a Turkish Corner
Date:
Object Number:
PR.120.1.3.SIX
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Object Number:
1941.894
Date:
1939
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 21 in. ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm )
Marks:
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS"
printed: in center: "SPRINGS PEACH ORCHARD/ TO KINGS MT. BATTLE FIELD/ GRIDER FIELD.../ LAST CONFEDERATE/ CABINET MEETING.../ ..."
Description:
Screenprinted cotton kerchief with a pictorial map of a town in South Carolina, with a woman holding peaches, a trolley, and Civil War Memorials; inner border of airplanes; blue outer border; printed in red, blue, green, yellow, and black.
Gallery Label:
Springs Cotton Mills, set up in 1887 at Fort Mill and expanded in 1912 to Kershaw, South Carolina, celebrated its golden anniversary in 1937.
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph Peto
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
