Object Details
- Description
- Commemorative textile with red, white and blue vertical stripes with scattered stars enclosing abbreviations of state names. A large medallion of Columbus discovering America alternates with the Status of Liberty. On the left side, small medallions of President George Washington alternate with a map of the Americas. On the right side, medallions of the Capitol Building alternate with a portrait of Columbus.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Merrimack Manufacturing Company, (American, founded 1822)
- Subject
- George Washington, American, 1732–1799
- Christopher Columbus, Italian, d. 1506
- Date
- 1892–1893
- Credit Line
- American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Katharine Kreiser and Arthur Larson
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 45.7 × 62.2 cm (18 in. × 24 1/2 in.)
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Textile
