Embroidered Towel
notes: label: Description
content: A red cotton embroidery on white linen ground. Baby chicks sailing in a wooden shoe with the wording “Wash and be clean.” The pattern is similar to a picture in The Lady’s Bazar, Vol. II. Sept 1879, p 381 entitled “Wrecked” by Charodeau. Briggs & Co. was founded in 1874 and they invented the iron-on transfer method.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14007
label: catalog number
content: T14007.000
label: accession number
content: 272176
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, towel