Fabric sample; England (UK) for the African market; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Textile Sample: White Cotton Shirting. Tag attached reads, “93881 - American Consulate at Mombasa, B.E.A. Trade opportunity No. 150 of July 28, 1917. Sample No. 3- White cotton shirting.” In blue print on the cloth, “Best Quality White Shirting”, “40 yards”, “Manufactured in England”. A partial label of “A. Allidina Visram, Mombasa” is seen on the right edge; Label attached depicts a young girl, “Shell Girl”, in the water inside an oyster shell. The border consists of shells and corals. Staining throughout.
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
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: United Kingdom
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.RSN80514V08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
label: Object Name
content: bolt end
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 62.5 cm x 41 cm; 24 19/32 in x 16 5/32 in