Details
Contributor Coffin & Altemus, publisher.
Title Martha Washington. Printed by S. H. Greene & Sons. Riverpoint, R.I. Coffin, Altemus & Co. Sole agents. [graphic].
Publisher [Riverpoint, R.I.?]: Coffin & Altemus
Publisher R.I. Riverpoint. 1871
Date c1871
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph mounted on paper; 20 x 12 cm. (7.75 x 4.75 in.)
Description Textile label for the textile print works founded in 1828 by Simon H. Greene and Edward Pike. Depicts Washington, in a sitting room, standing next to a table with knitting, and holding a letter reading "For the Soldiers at Valley Forge, George Washington." View also includes a window looking onto a winter scene and a framed portrait of George Washington. Label also contains an ornamental border. The firm, renamed S. H. Greene & Sons in 1865, were nationally known for their "Washington" line of printed textiles.
Notes Printed and stamped on recto: No. 48 2 Yds.
Copyrighted in Washington, D.C.
Lines drawn on recto.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject S.H. Greene & Sons.
Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 -- Portraits.
Genre Textile labels -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer Coffin & Altemus, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.108]
Accession number P.2011.10.108