Picture
date: label: Date
content: 1904
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Anderson Brothers Silk Company, (Paterson, NJ, USA, founded ca. 1885)
label: Subject
content: Betsy Ross
notes: label: Description
content: Woven picture of a seated Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag was made for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition or as it was commonly known, the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904. Betsy Ross sits with the flag on the front porch of a clapboard house with a spinning wheel and cat. Scene was originally flanked by the 1905 calendar: first half of the year on the left and the second half on the right. Both have been cut away.
place: label: made in
content: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2016-35-75
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Picture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.2 × 13.3 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)