"Scouts" dress silk, Mallinson's La Victoire series I
date: label: date made
content: 1918
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The first H.R. Mallinson & Co. La Victoire series, designed just before the Armistice to end World War I in Fall, 1918, comprised 6 designs. The first series of La Victoire prints celebrated different aspects of the French military forces. The "Scouts" design is "a clever stripe design in which the French poilu is featured on a scouting expedition." (description taken from a Mallinson marketing booklet). Infantry scouts often operated alone, ahead of their units, trying to find out the size and placement of the opposing forces. In this striped design, the seated and standing figures of the scouts appear to melt into the trees. The design is machine-printed on a lightweight semi-sheer silk crepe that the Mallinson firm trademarked as "Indestructible Crepe."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: World War I
label: related event
content: World War I
label: related event
content: Armistice of November 11, 1918
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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: Mallinson’s La Victoire
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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.T04076
label: accession number
content: 63204
label: catalog number
content: T04076.000
label: catalog number
content: T4076
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content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: crepe, semi-sheer (overall fabric name)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm