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Lot 283
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$189
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Lot Description
[AMERICANA]. Cotton Centenary apron. Pawtucket, RI: Dunnell Man'f'g Co., 1890.
Approx. 33 x 34 1/2 in. printed cotton apron (some fading to portraits, occasional brown spots. old creasing).
A textile produced to celebrate the starting of Samuel Slater's cotton spinning machinery on 20 December 1790 at the Slater Mill. Contemporary newspapers report on the celebration: "A Cotton Centenary; An Interesting Celebration to be held in Rhode Island." (New York Times, 14 September 1890).
Property from the Collection of Jonathan Holstein, San Francisco, California