"Rhino" cotton drill sample; Manchester (UK) for the African Market; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Sample of khaki-colored twill weave cotton drill; Ogdens & Madelys Limited, Manchester (UK); manufactured for the African Market.
label: Description
content: Khaki Drill sample from the Mombasa Consular group. On top is a green label with a Griffin head and an acorn branch in its mouth, “ILIAS IN NUCE”. Below the green label is a stamp of a rhinoceros in blue, and text “RHINO”. Below that, stamped in blue is "No. 1 S." Sanskrit text appears in blue towards the bottom. Label “Ogdens & Madeleys Limited Manchester” is stamped, also the seal in the left corner. In Right Corner is a key logo with “Guaranteed Government, Fast Dye”. At the bottom is the bolt length: “45 yards”. On the back is a stamp of the Griffin head with a “Warning Private Trade Marks” stamped below.
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
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Greater Manchester
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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.RSN80514V20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 cm x 71 cm; 17 5/16 in x 27 15/16 in