"Elizabeth Monroe" dress silk; Mallinson's George Washington Bicentennial print series
date: label: Date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed pure dye silk crepe--soft, lustrous, plain weave fabric #7102 (same construction as T-6943) pattern #3969 "Elizabeth Monroe," one of the H.R. Mallinson & Co. George Washington Bicentennial prints. The bright flower motifs and tiny flower garland, developed in rose, red, yellow, black, mauve and sand on eggshell ground, were copied from the silk brocade dress, worn by Elizabeth Monroe wife of President James Monroe, and at the time this line of dress silks was introduced, on exhibition at the National Museum (now NMAH).
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: 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.T06946
label: catalog number
content: T6946
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 6946
label: accession number
content: 118355
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
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content: fabric length
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