Object Details
- Description
- Commemorative black and white bookmark of President Theodore Roosevelt made for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, an international exposition celebrating the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Roosevelt is shown in a portrait medallion surmounted by an eagle. Inscription at top reads: "Exposition." At bottom is another inscription: "St. Louis 1904."
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Anderson Brothers Silk Company, (Paterson, NJ, USA, founded ca. 1885)
- Subject
- Theodore Roosevelt, American, 1858–1919
- Date
- 1904
- Credit Line
- American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Edwin Rausch
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 × 15.2 cm (2 3/4 in. × 6 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Commemorative bookmark
