Samuel Eiseman & Co., silk shirting fabric; 1915.
date: label: Date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Samuel Eiseman & Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Samuel Eiseman silk plain weave shirting fabric length; 1915. Wash silk shirting. A striped plain weave silk, having narrow satin weave stripes. May be laundered without injury to the fabric. Some light staining throughout. Pink stripes are 0.25 inches wide and 1.5 inches from each other. Five thin white satin stripes separate the pink stripes and the pink stripes are bordered with white stripes. Thin and light. Used to make shirts and blouses.
label: Description
content: Previous name of the company was Eiseman Bros. from 1881-1898. The trade name was – SECO – acronym for Samuel Eiseman & Co.. It was a silk dress goods sales agency and converter, which also operated mills in New Hampshire. Goods were sold through the headquarters and sales offices in New York City. The company dissolved in the early 1930s. Founder - Samuel Eiseman
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Newmarket
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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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: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Eiseman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02496.000
label: accession number
content: 58159
label: catalog number
content: T02496.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: satin striped plain weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 36 in; 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm