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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 with a pictorial map of towns in South Carolina with factories, houses, and the railroad; inner border of bobbins; outer red border; printed in blue, green, yellow, red, and black.
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph Peto
Object Number
1941.897
Marks
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS"
printed: in center: "CHESTER S.C./ TO LANCASTER/ SPRINGSTEEN/ TO SPARTANBURG/ GAYLE/ TO YORK/ EUREKA"
Gallery Label
Springs Cotton Mills, set up in 1887 at Fort Mill and expanded in 1912 to Kershaw, South Carolina, celebrated its golden anniversary in 1937.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
