"Kaniki Blue" Fabric sample; UK for the African market; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Sample cut of cotton textile: "Kaniki Blue". Thick dark blue rectangle of cloth with large square piece cut from one corner. Tag attached reads, “No. 14, Kaniki Blue size 47 X68”. Each made up in pairs. Each pair to be wrapped in paper, packed 200 to a bale. About 6,000 bales a year can be used." Label on the back reads, “No. C3997, Width: 46 and 130, Length (Blank), Price: 54/1 ½ per corg.” Labeled, “Durant, Radford & Co. Ltd., London.” “110” is written in red on fabric.
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
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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.RSN80514V13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 92 cm x 16 cm; 36 7/32 in x 6 5/16 in