"Trail of the Forty-Niners" printed dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
date: label: Date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Length of printed "Indestructible Chiffon Voile" (Mallinson trade name), a sheer, plain weave, all silk fabric. Printed with all over pattern "Trail of the Forty-Niners", one of the Mallinson 1929 "Early American Series." This design depicts panning gold on the Feather River, bench mining, placer mining, San Francisco and the bay, miners going to the gold fields, mountains and Lake Tahoe. Colorway: light greens, grays, peach, brown, black. Selvage width; selvage insciption.
label: Description
content: Mallinson's 1929 "Early American" series of printed dress silks was based on historical events and figures that were perceived at the time to consitute a shared American story. It was the last of the company's line of designs based on American themes in which each design was printed in at least seven colors, in several colorways, on three or four different ground cloths. The stock market crash and economic depression that followed made the investment in this kind of design unprofitable.
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: Mallinson's Early American
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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.T05944
label: accession number
content: 104252
label: catalog number
content: T05944.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
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content: green ground (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm