Dresser Scarf
name: label: maker
content: Bailey, Emma Josephine Radar
notes: label: Description
content: A flat silk embroidered doily or dresser scarf, named Japanese Chrysanthemum, adapted in the 1890’s from chrysanthemum patterns found in Needle and Hook produced by Belding Bros. & Co and Embroidery Lessons by Brainerd and Armstrong. Both were manufactures of silk thread, and each advertised as having the best silk. Made by Mrs. William (Emma Josephine) Bailey of Carroll or Lake City, Iowa. See pattern TE*T14423A.
label: Description
content: Emma Josephine Rader was born December 15, 1863 to Levi and Ninon Rader in OH. She married in November 7, 1883 William W. Bailey in Lake City Iowa. They had three children- Mabel J, Arthur T. and Fay Margaret. She died February 4, 1941.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Faye M. Bailey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14423
label: catalog number
content: T14423.000
label: accession number
content: 274320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 42 in; 43.18 cm x 106.68 cm