"Housewife's Crying Towel" tea towel by Morris Setton; 1955
date: label: date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description
content: "Housewife's Crying Towel" tea towel by Morris Setton; 1955. Linen; printed. Design of comic cartoon men and women depicted in household scenes with lively complaints/sayings in poetry and prose; in red, green, and orange with border of red coffee pots linked by steam rising from spouts; on a white ground. Sayings include "Dinner! Dinner! Dinner! Dinner! M'Lord is Awaiting!" and "He says that housework is child's play / and proves it to me on Mother's Day". Submitted by Morris Setton to the Library of Congress for copyright July 27 1955. Machine hemmed edges, selvage width (which is used as the length of the towel).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0255.68
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0255.68
label: accession number
content: 1988.0255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tea towel
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 16 1/2 in; 73.66 cm x 41.91 cm