"Beebe Bug" dress silk; Mallinson's 1925 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 Mallinson trade-name Pussy Willow silk, a soft, drapey, plain weave fabric. Manufacturer's numbers: #900/2304/3. Printed design of a large tropical moth that camouflages itself as a leaf, from the Beebe Expedition series. Colorway is shades of blue, yellow, and reddish brown with black, on a Bois de Rose (pinkish-brown) ground. The design, called the Beebe Bug, was taken from one of the sketches by Helen Tee Van, artist on the 1925 New York Zoological Society sponsored expedition to the Galapagos Islands and Sargasso Sea captained by William Beebe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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.T05454
label: catalog number
content: T5454
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5454
label: accession number
content: 92859
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in; 99.06 cm