Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Needle Lace Certificate
date: label: date made
content: 1909
label: Associated Date
content: 1909
notes: label: Description
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Grand Prize certificate awarded to Mrs. Edy Verporte, Spokane, Washington on October 16, 1909 for the needle-lace medallion 2003.0186.01 she designed and made. The lace medallion and the printed certificate depict the official seal of the exposition, highlighting the five industries being celebrated. The vignettes show fishing; the Trans-Pacific trade by a woman dressed in a kimono and holding a ship; the Klondike gold rush and mining by a woman holding a large gold nugget; the railroad by a woman holding a train engine; and logging. The certificate is signed by four officials of the exposition and is adorned with a gold colored embossed seal.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Washington, Spokane
label: associated place
content: United States: Alaska
label: associated place
content: Canada: Yukon
label: made at
content: United States: Washington, Seattle
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: general subject association
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: Subject
content: Lace
label: related event
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margaret Lee Feliz Sherlock & Warren C. Sherlock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0186.02
label: accession number
content: 2003.0186
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0186.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: CERTIFICATE
label: Object Name
content: CERTIFICATE, lace
label: Object Name
content: certificate, lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: embossed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: hand written (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 19 3/4 in; 39.37 cm x 50.165 cm