Collection Highlights
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
1918.325
Graphite with scratching out on beige paper
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Campaign kerchief of Cleveland and Stevenson
Title
Campaign kerchief of Cleveland and Stevenson
Object name
Kerchief
Date
1892
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 20 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. ( 51.8 x 51.1 cm )
Description
Cotton copper-engraved presidential campaign kerchief with portraits of Grover Cleveland and General Adalai E. Stevenson in blue on white ground within two ovals; ovals, two U.S. shield armorials and four U.S. bald-eagle armorials in red, white, and blue on red ground; border of hearts, stars, checks, and squares in red, white and blue.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1938.254
Marks
printed: below portraits: " GROVER CLEVELAND/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT/ 1892/ GEN. A. E. STEVENSON/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT/ 1892"
printed: above flag armorials: " UNION IS STRENGTH"
printed: on eagle armorials: " E PLURIBUS UNUM"
Gallery Label
This kerchief was made for the Presidential Campaign of 1892.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
