"New Amsterdam - Old New York" dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
date: label: Date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Length of "Pussy Willow" silk (Mallinson trade name) -- A fine soft, radium-like, plain weave fabric (mfr #1900). Printed with allover pattern (mfr #2767) titled "New Amsterdam - Old New York", part of the Mallinson 1929 Early American series. This design was developed in a blue and white color combination suggesting Delftware (Dutch blue and white ceramics), and representing Bowling Green, the Bowery, arrival of the British, Wall Street, old Fort at the Battery and Old Canal Street- Color #15b--two shades of blue, black, and tan on a white ground. Selvage width; selvage inscription.
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.T05938
label: catalog number
content: T5938
label: accession number
content: 104252
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 in; 91.44 cm x 99.06 cm