Collection Highlights
The Game of Playing Department Store
1898
2000.715
Cardboard, wood, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object name
Kerchief
Date
1880
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 19 x 21 3/4 in. ( 48.3 x 55.2 cm )
Description
Cotton lithographed campaign kerchief with two medallion portraits in the center of Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English with a U.S. shield above and below; in each corner is an American bald eagle with a shield at his breast and arrows and laurel branches in his claws; decorative border; printed in black, red and blue on a white ground.
Credit Line
Purchase
Object Number
1960.51
Marks
printed: below portraits: "GEN. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT/ HON. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH/ DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT"
printed: above shields: "IN UNION/ IS/ STRENGTH"
printed: in eagle's banner: "E PLURIBUS/ UNUM"
Gallery Label
Hancock and English were unsuccessful candidates for President and Vice President in 1880. Garfield and Arthur were elected to office that year.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.