"Sargasso Seaweed" dress silk; Mallinson's Beebe expedition series
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed Pussy Willow silk. Pussy Willow was the H.R. Mallinson & Co. trade name for a soft drapey plain weave fabric Manufacturer's numbers: #900/2322/4. Design by Helen Tee-Van of kelp from one of her original sketches - under-water studies of the dense Sargasso seaweed beds -- Van was an artist on board the Steam Yacht Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society's 1925 Expedition under Capt. Wm. Beebe to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands. Colorway: medium blue ground with design of waving and overlapping seaweed fronds in yellow, white, dull orange, black, and light blue.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05455
label: accession number
content: 92859
label: catalog number
content: T05455.000
label: catalog number
content: T5455
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5455
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content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
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content: rust (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: gray-blue ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm