"Flying Fish" dress silk, Mallinson's Beebe Expedition series
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed "Pussy Willow" silk, H.R. Mallinson & Co. trade name for a soft drapey plain weave fabric. Manufacturer's numbers (#900/2318). Allover repeating design of flying fish against a ground of water droplets/ocean spray from an original sketch made by artist Helen Tee-Van on board the Steam Yacht Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society's 1925 Expedition under Capt. Wm. Beebe to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands. Colorway: three shades of blue, orange, tan, black, white.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05453
label: accession number
content: 92859
label: catalog number
content: T05453.000
label: catalog number
content: T5453
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5453
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: rose (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: mustard ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 1/2 in; 100.33 cm