Textile
date: label: Date
content: 1876
name: label: Manufacturer
content: American Print Works, founded 1835
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small medallion repeat of a portrait bust in a frame of foliage and small stars alternates with an eagle holding a flowering bough in its beak. In black, rust, blue and brown on white foundation. Possibly a commemorative textile printed for the Philadelphia Centennial. Portrait depicts either General Lafayette, Andrew Jackson, or Simón Bolívar, the Liberator of South America.
place: label: made in
content: Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Herbert Emken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-1-7
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: block and roller printed on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 55 x 19 cm (21 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)