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Collection Highlights

Kerchief
ca. 1848
1941.103
Cotton
Depicted: C. A. May

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Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills

Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Title
Scarf: Spring Cotton Mills
Object name 
Kerchief
Date 
1939
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Springs Cotton Mills
Medium 
Cotton
Dimensions 
Overall: 21 x 21 in. ( 53.3 x 53.3 cm )
Description 
Cotton screen-printed kerchief with a pictorial map of a town in South Carolina, with a woman holding peaches, a trolley, and Civil War Memorials; inner border of airplanes; blue outer border; printed in red, blue, green, yellow, and black.
Credit Line 
Gift of Joseph Peto
Object Number 
1941.894
Marks 
printed: on border: repeated, "SPRINGS COTTON MILLS" printed: in center: "SPRINGS PEACH ORCHARD/ TO KINGS MT. BATTLE FIELD/ GRIDER FIELD.../ LAST CONFEDERATE/ CABINET MEETING.../ ..."
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.