Swatch book of cotton goods; Phillippines/Amsterdam; Consular Collection
date: label: date made
content: 1898-1918
notes: label: Description
content: Packet of about 30 swatches of multicolored cotton fabrics, mostly stripes & plaids; in a booklet form witha green cover card. From Manilla, Phillippines. Marked on the card: "United States Consulate, Amsterdam. Cotton goods" with information regarding shipping & consigning of textiles. [Unclear if these were produced in the Phillipines or produced in the Netherlands for the Phillipine Islands market.]
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
setName: label: See more items in
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.RSN80570Q15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sample Book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 4 3/32 in x 31/32 in; 19.05 cm x 10.414 cm x 2.4892 cm