"Betsy Ross" dress silk, Mallinson's George Washington Biecentennial print series
date: label: Date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed pure dye silk crepe. Soft lustrous plain weave fabric, pattern "Betsy Ross" one of the H.R. Mallinson & Co. George Washington Bicentennial prints. All over diagonal novelty stripe: arrangement of stars and stripes of varying widths and sizes in red, beige, and white.
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.T06952
label: accession number
content: 118355
label: catalog number
content: T06952.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: beige (overall color)
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