Collection Highlights
Empire State Building, N.Y.C.
1940
1940.978
Oil on canvas
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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: 21 x 21 in. ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm )
Description
Cotton screen-printed kerchief with a pictorial map of the North Carolina, South Carolina border with two presidential birthplaces, a train, and a factory; inner border of dresses and cotton; outer red border; printed in red, blue, yellow, orange, green, and black.
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph Peto
Object Number
1941.896
Marks
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS"
printed: in center: "BIRTHPLACE - PRESIDENT JAMES K POLK/ PINEVILLE N.C./ NORTH CAROLINA/ BIRTHPLACE - PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON/ WAXHAW S.C./ SOUTH CAROLINA/ LANCASTER/ COURTHOUSE/ THE MARION SIMS/ MEMORIAL HOSPITAL/ TO SPARTANBURG/ TO WILMINGTON"
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.