Collection Highlights
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Date:
ca. 1869
Object Number:
LIB.CT.T8855.B7
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile fragment: top hats and spectacles
Object Number:
1941.893
Date:
1872
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 18.1 x 18.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "HG"
typed: on note found with textile: "Document of Chintz made by the firm of Maqueston & Co./New York, in 1850, to whom the American Institute, New York,/awarded a price (sic) for the design in that year."
Description:
Cotton lithographed textile yardage fragment with an allover pattern of stripes containing Horace Greeley Presidential campaign motifs: the axe and sickle, white beaver hat and spectacles, and his intials "HG"; sepia, red and tan ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This textile was made for the 1872 presidential campaign of Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Florence Peto
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
