Bolt end of cotton cloth for the African market; Allidina Visram; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Textile Sample: Plain weave white cotton shirting. Tag attached, "American Consulate at Mombasa, B.E.A. Trade opportunity No. 150, 93881, of July 28, 1917. Sample No. 1- White Shirting". A bleached white fabric with a glossy surface finish. Labeled in gold: “A. Allidina Visram, Mombasa.” with a symbol of a three-armed scroll or swirl pattern with trefoils in the crevices. Stitched together, approx. 4 ft. in length.
label: Description
content: An envelope found with the Mombasa textile group reads: "Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. 93881 (1917), Mombasa Textiles Brit. Manuf. CR 260 1917 FTO25764" (or FTO625764?) This is the Consular Report associated with this textile sample. At the time of this correspondence, Mombasa was in British East Africa.
label: Description
content: Consular Collection: Part of collection of samples acquired by US Consuls overseas between about 1898 and 1918, in the interests of promoting US trade and business opportunities; which was transferred by the Dept. of Commerce in the 1920s-30s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Consular Collection Textile Samples
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from the Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN80514V10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
label: Object Name
content: bolt end
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.5 cm x 63 cm; 16 23/32 in x 24 13/16 in