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title:"Franklin's Key to Electricity" dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
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  date:
  
  label:Date made
  content:1929


  name:
  
  label:depicted
  content:Franklin, Benjamin

  
  label:maker
  content:H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.


  notes:
  
  label:Description
  content:Length of "Pussy Willow" (Mallinson trade name) - a fine soft, radium-like plain weave fabric ( mfr #1900). Printed with an allover pattern #2773, "Franklin's Key to Electricity," one of the "Early American" series. This pattern is also called "Early and Modern American," as in it are introduced influences that directly and indirectly resulted from Franklin's experiments with electricity: Electric train, electric lamp; electric crane and shovel; electric telephone; radio microphone; searchlight; automobile; contrasted with these are the pony express rider; Franklin and his kite; Franklin in his study, and at his printing press. Six colors and black on a white ground #15. Selvage width, selvage inscription. Judging from drawings by free-lance textile designer Walter Mitschke in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Mitschke designed this print and several others in the Early American series. This particular design, with its jagged diagonals, was influenced by Jazz Age modernism.

  
  label:Description
  content:Mallinson's 1929 "Early American" series of printed dress silks was based on historical events and figures that were perceived at the time to consitute a shared American story. It was the last of the company's line of designs based on American themes in which each design was printed in at least seven colors, in several colorways, on three or four different ground cloths. The stock market crash and economic depression that followed made the investment in this kind of design unprofitable.

  
  label:Location
  content:Currently not on view


  place:
  
  label:place made
  content:United States: New York, New York City


  topic:
  
  label:related event
  content:Seige of the Alamo


  setName:
  
  label:See more items in
  content:Home and Community Life: Textiles

  
  label:See more items in
  content:American Silks

  
  label:See more items in
  content:American Silk Industry

  
  label:See more items in
  content:Migel-Mallinson Silks

  
  label:See more items in
  content:Textiles

  
  label:See more items in
  content:Mallinson's Early American


  creditLine:
  
  label:Credit Line
  content:Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.


  dataSource:
  
  label:Data Source
  content:National Museum of American History


  identifier:
  
  label:ID Number
  content:TE.T05940

  
  label:catalog number
  content:T5940

  
  label:catalog number
  content:T (/) 5940

  
  label:accession number
  content:104252


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  label:Object Name
  content:Fabric, Printed

  
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  content:fabric length


  physicalDescription:
  
  label:Physical Description
  content:silk (overall material)

  
  label:Physical Description
  content:plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)

  
  label:Measurements
  content:overall: 36 in x 39 in; 91.44 cm x 99.06 cm



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   1920s

   name:
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   Franklin, Benjamin

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   New York City
   New York
   United States

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   Silk
   Migel-Mallinson Silks
   Seige of the Alamo
   Textiles

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   Other:
   type:Place
   content:United States


   
   Other:
   type:Place
   content:New York


   
   Other:
   type:Place
   content:New York City


   
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   latitude:
   type:decimal
   content:40.7

   longitude:
   type:decimal
   content:-74





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