Handbag of H.R. Mallinson's "Showboat on the Mississippi" printed silk; Early American series
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1929
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Handmade handbag; small flat bag with fabric covered frame and self- fabric straps, hand quilted through to the lining. Decorative button and strap closure covers single functioning snap. The fabric is the H.R. Mallinson "Showboat on the Mississippi" printed slk, from the 1929 "Early American" series. The silk is a crepe weave rather than on the Mallinson Pussy Willow fabrication that makes up the matching dress. Lined in light blue silk, which has some tears and holes. Probably hand made by a dressmaker to go with the dress, 2015.0335.01, with which it was acquired. Examples of both the print design and the crepe weave ground cloth are among the Mallinson Early American series examples in the textile collection.
label: Description
content: Mallinson's 1929 "Early American" series of printed dress silks was based on historical events and figures that were perceived at the time to consitute a shared American story. It was the last of the company's line of designs based on American themes in which each design was printed in at least seven colors, in several colorways, on three or four different ground cloths. The stock market crash and economic depression that followed made the investment in this kind of design unprofitable.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: web subject
content: Fashion
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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
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content: Mallinson's Early American
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0335.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0335
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0335.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: handbag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; crepe, cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in; 35.56 cm