"Shells" 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 H.R. Mallinson's printed Pussy Willow (trade name) silk fabric. Soft drapey plain weave, cylinder printed. Manufacturer's numbers: #900/2332/12. Printed with an allover, spaced, non-directional design of a variety of sea shells and sea life in fuchsia, gray-blue, orange, brown with black and white on a light peach ground. According to the manufacturer this series shows the adaptability of marine objects applied to dress materials. One of the designs taken from sketches by artist Helen Tee Van, who accompanied the New York Zoological Society sponsored trip to the Galapagos Islands and Sargasso Sea captained by William Beebe in 1925.
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.T05457
label: accession number
content: 92859
label: catalog number
content: T05457.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fuschia (overall color)
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content: gray (overall color)
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content: henna (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: macaroon(?) ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 1/2 in x 36 in; 100.33 cm x 91.44 cm