Bates Co. World War II imagery bedspread
date: label: date made
content: ca 1942
name: label: maker
content: Bates Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bedspread; Bates Co., USA; 1940s. Red, white, and blue jacquard-woven bedspread with a woven design of Aircraft carriers and other warships, and fighter planes. Faded center, colors are better preserved around the edges. Used by the donor’s older brother, Paul Frey, in the family home in Downer's Grove, Illinois after 1942, when the family moved to Illinois from Kinsley, Kansas. The spread was also used by the donor, Lois F. Crane, when she moved into her brother Paul's former bedroom in the late 1940s. 85” x 95” - Bates label or tag stitched into one seam.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Lewiston
topic: label: related event
content: World War II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lois F. Crane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0208.01
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0208.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedspread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: jacquard woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 in x 85 in; 241.3 cm x 215.9 cm