Collection Highlights
Armchair
1785-1789
1916.7
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Title
Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Object name
Kerchief
Date
1939
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 20 3/4 x 21 in. ( 52.7 x 53.3 cm )
Description
Cotton screen-printed kerchief of a pictorial map of Kershaw, SC with a woman in a bathing suit, a battlefield, factories, and a polo field; inner border red with white stacking squares, blue outer border; printed in red, blue, green, yellow, and black on a white ground.
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph Peto
Object Number
1941.895
Marks
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS"
printed: in center: "SOUTHERN RAILROAD/ HANGING ROCK BATTLEFIELD/ NORTH TO LANCASTER/ KERSH