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Textile

Merrimack Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1822

Commemorative textile with red, white and blue vertical stripes with scattered stars enclosing abbreviations of state names. A large medallion of Columbus discovering America alternates with the Status of Liberty. On the left side, small medallions of President George Washington alternate with a map of the Americas. On the right side, medallions of the Capitol Building alternate with a portrait of Columbus.

Date

1892–1893

Type

printed, dyed & painted textiles

Medium

Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave

Department

CHNDM

Institution

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object number

chndm_2016-35-82

Credit

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Katharine Kreiser and Arthur Larson